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The easy way out is to change the name to "ASF" and not use the full name "Apache Software Foundation". The downside is that it now becomes the "ASF Foundation" which is a big pill…

Allwinner wants to sell as many SoCs as possible. Being open and having good Linux support is good business. The serve the low-end sector, which means they may not spend a lot of m…

It is not much of a question of what's wrong with GTK, Qt, etc. Flutter is cross-platform. Canonical is doing the work for Linux. Toyota is doing the work for embedded devices (to …

Oh, on Linux, Flutter apps will have the default Ubuntu theme.

It is weird that this is your "last straw". Most likely you haven't used Ubuntu for a very long time and just want to influence others to switch away from Ubuntu.

Those windows controls on the left was the result of UI experiments. The mouse travels less when the controls are on the left. Imagine launching an application with the launcher on…

That's the page, https://ubuntu.com/download/server You get three options to run Ubuntu server. The first option is to run Ubuntu server in a VM, and most users will want to run Ub…

Most likely you tried to run a command, this command was part of a package that has not been installed, and Ubuntu suggested to you to install a specific deb or snap package. There…

talent (τάλαντο) is a Greek word to describe some quality or charisma that some people may possess when they do something. It comes from the ancient times of rulers and peasants wh…

There is evidence of fungi appearing over 1 billion years ago [1]. Plants first appeared around 400 million years ago or later [2]. In fact, early plants required symbiosis with fu…

You can hold off the update of a snap package for up to two months by enabling the appropriate key at https://snapcraft.io/docs/keeping-snaps-up-to-date I suppose the rational is t…

Other distributions also use the Snap Store. See the stats for the Skype snap package for the range of Linux distributions, https://snapcraft.io/skype

By default you ask your users for these permissions, if you do not want to get them from the Snap Store. That is, create your snap package and publish it on the Snap Store. Do not …

Chromium is very complicated in terms of packaging, and packaging it as a deb package is too tough. Because when a new version appears, you need to do lots of work to get it update…

By default, snapd keeps three copies of older versions of a snap package. It does so, so that you can revert easily to a previous version if the latest version does not work. You c…

Lenovo cited NetMarketShare for the stats on the desktop Linux, https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-brin... You can "snap download" and "snap install" to bypass…

The chromium transition from deb to snap has been discussed here (Note: October 2019) https://snapcraft.io/blog/chromium-in-ubuntu-deb-to-snap-tra... Ubuntu could not maintain a de…

Lenovo, in their announcement, they start by saying that they made the move because the Linux desktop stands at 2.7%. And they want in, in this 2.7% market. If the Linux desktop be…

Is the question whether snapd require an init, or whether snapd should be packaged to work with more init systems?

Have a look at LXD. It creates system containers that are based on runtimes of most Linux distributions. You can stick to specific versions and are certain that those do not change…

snapd does much more.

The announcement from 2019 is https://snapcraft.io/blog/chromium-in-ubuntu-deb-to-snap-tra...

If you first run snap login then you can install snaps without "sudo". I suppose it is the same process with flatpaks.

The Mint maintainer went out of his way to react in bad faith. The chromium transition was announced in October 2019, https://snapcraft.io/blog/chromium-in-ubuntu-deb-to-snap-tra..…

"apt" packages are handmade. And they depend on hand-made dependencies. It becomes increasingly difficult to maintain packages like chromium, because they have too many dependencie…