Snap Store

Brian Sturgill brian.sturgill at ataman.com
Thu Aug 25 16:41:19 MDT 2022


On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 3:04 PM Bob Proulx <bob at proulx.com> wrote:

> Brian Sturgill wrote:
> > It turns out that, while snapd, etc. are open source.
> > The protocols of the snap store are proprietary.
> >
> >
> https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/snap.html#disabled-snap-store-in-linux-mint-20
>
> I have always been told that snaps are an Ubuntu proprietary feature.
> Other OS distributions can't use snaps.  Ubuntu users are not quite
> required to use snaps but not using them is harder.


Snaps run on most modern Linux (that have systemd).
What is propritary the store protocol. Only Cannonical can have a snap
store... and especially for
Ubuntu users, that is bad.

Brian


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Brian Sturgill
President and CTO
Ataman Software, Inc.
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