On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 07:38:53PM +0300, George Shuklin wrote: > I'd like to stir some debates. > > Ubuntu (which is 'enterprise friendly Debian with ambivalent feeling about > free software') started to push snaps onto servers for real. It looks to me > like they desperately want to jump away from debs into 'vendor friendly > packaging'. Is it so? >
Yes, I think it might be. The problem with some packages is that they're impossible to keep up to date in the traditional way, seemingly, and Ubuntu want to use snaps to make things easier to manage / quicker to update. Lots of different ways to make a distribution: Ubuntu / MXlinux and all sorts of others, each with their own ideas, Debian with theirs - lots of shades of opinion dividing the pool of Linux users and Linux development talent. Ubuntu is a commercial distribution with its own viewpoint - though when I first came across it (before it first released in 2005 - when it was still a quiet discussion) it was described to me by one of the very first participants "If we could have got away with calling it Debian for desktops, we would have done" - so stuff has quietly changed in tha last 16 years as has the overall profile of the distribution. All best, Andy C.
