Ubuntu’s snap apps are coming to distros everywhere (Ars Technica)

Posted Jun 15, 2016 2:06 UTC (Wed) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: Ubuntu’s snap apps are coming to distros everywhere (Ars Technica) by AdamW
Parent article: Ubuntu’s snap apps are coming to distros everywhere (Ars Technica)

Snappy is derived from Ubuntu's phone project. Outside of Canonical I think the first time it was made public was when the beta released in 2014.

Flatpak/xdg-app is slightly newer, but the packaging functionality used in the 'runtime' generation and management is OSTree, which has been around since 2012.

OSTree has been used in Redhat's 'Project Atomic' which is a attempt to make a competitive cloud computing platform. They have Atomic Fedora and Atomic CentOS. They use 'rpm-ostree' to take binaries from rpm packages and build their OS images. It's worth checking out.

Ubuntu’s snap apps are coming to distros everywhere (Ars Technica)

Posted Jun 15, 2016 2:58 UTC (Wed) by AdamW (subscriber, #48457) [Link]

I work for Red Hat, I know about it. =) But I'm trying to be even handed.

Ubuntu’s snap apps are coming to distros everywhere (Ars Technica)

Posted Jun 15, 2016 3:13 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (2 responses)

> Snappy is derived from Ubuntu's phone project.

If we are talking about history, it should be noted that flatpak is derived from glick

https://2016.guadec.org/author/muelli/
https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2007/08/21/glick-01-released/

And of course, AppImage is based on Klik which is older than other solutions.

Ubuntu’s snap apps are coming to distros everywhere (Ars Technica)

Posted Jun 15, 2016 12:21 UTC (Wed) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link] (1 responses)

Then again, the Snappy guys talked about Klik (the predecessor of Glick) too, dunno if they can claim it is based on that or not though ;-)

Klik sure was an interesting technology, yes.

https://www.linux.com/news/one-click-installation-klik

Ubuntu’s snap apps are coming to distros everywhere (Ars Technica)

Posted Jun 15, 2016 12:51 UTC (Wed) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

We gave klik a try back in the day, but the technology wasn't ripe -- and I was too ignorant, too, I think:

http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/hacking/krita/kli...

http://lwn.net/Articles/153158/

https://blogs.kde.org/2006/02/07/klik-ing-koffice-150-bet...

Gosh, that's really ten years ago now!