GUADEC 2024 Snap and Ubuntu Core Desktop – Desktop Linux, as easy as a smartphone!
Till Kamppeter presents this GUADEC 2024 Day 1, Track 1 talk.
Immutable Linux distributions are talked about a lot. Ease of use and security by the operating system itself and also the applications in read-only file systems and isolated from each other, this an idea coming from smartphone operating systems.
Well before the immutable hype, a decade ago, Canonical, having given up on the smartphone operating system Ubuntu Touch, based on their experience with Touch, they created the immutable system Ubuntu Core, and Snap as packaging system for apps and components.
Later on, they established Snap as universal, distribution-independent packaging system for classic Linux distributions and the Snap Store started offering all kinds of applications, including desktop applications.
Out of that arose Canonical’s approach of an immutable desktop distro, Ubuntu Core, with a desktop environment Snap added, Ubuntu Core Desktop.
This talk is covers how all this works.
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