[kwlug-disc] Ubuntu is replacing .deb with Snappy

[Chris Frey]

This is just building on top of btrfs and systemd, no?

http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html

If you're going to go that route, might as well go the whole way and
get all the benefits you can. :-)  Looks like Ubuntu is attempting just that.

- Chris


On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 02:57:32PM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> Ubuntu will be moving away from .deb it seems.
> 
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/more-stable-future-ubuntu
> 
> http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/
> 
> This is a major undertaking. Ubuntu used to capitalize on the fact that
> debian has vast mostly centralized repositories with tens of thousands of
> packages.
> 
> Now,Canonical will either have to a) re-roll all the packages from debian
> on an ongoing basis as releases (very labour intensive), or b) settle for a
> subset of what is available, thus causing less choice for their user base.
> 
> Usually a major change like that used to be rolled out to the community for
> testing for a fair amount of time, and then when acceptance grows (or not),
> it is gets into popular distros.
> 
> Snappy was announced in December of 2014, so it is only six months old ...
> 
> But of late things have been moving into a different direction: top down,
> not bottom up as it used to be. The example is systemd's adoption in Debian
> and Ubuntu.
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