Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by anuragsoni » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 12:15 PM UTC

koolba wrote: post #8

knocte wrote: post #4

I love the part about simplifying packaging via 'snap'. Now, I would love to know, if I'm a maintainer of Foo (and you can get it today via `apt-get install foo`), how will I be able to start packaging using snap rather than relying on deb packages that come from debian? I'd love any feedback, cheers!

What is snap? I can't find mention of it anywhere on the release notes page.

https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/desktop/

https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/build-apps/

The ubuntu developer page has a good description of snaps and how to create them.

In short its a package that contains all its dependencies.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by pjf » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 12:17 PM UTC

tard wrote: post #3

what are they going to do when they run out of letters in the alphabet?

obviously, invent new letters :)

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by pluma » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 12:18 PM UTC

tard wrote: post #3

what are they going to do when they run out of letters in the alphabet?

Shut down the company and stop releasing new versions, obviously.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by rootbear » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 12:21 PM UTC

tard wrote: post #3

what are they going to do when they run out of letters in the alphabet?

Greek, Cyrillic, Elvish,...

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by tomswartz07 » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 12:21 PM UTC

knocte wrote: post #4

I love the part about simplifying packaging via 'snap'. Now, I would love to know, if I'm a maintainer of Foo (and you can get it today via `apt-get install foo`), how will I be able to start packaging using snap rather than relying on deb packages that come from debian? I'd love any feedback, cheers!

Just a side note, as well:

`apt-get` is depreciated, they've moved to just plain `apt`

`apt install foo`

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by Scarblac » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 12:21 PM UTC

tard wrote: post #3

what are they going to do when they run out of letters in the alphabet?

Unicode is growing fast enough.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by ronjouch » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 12:22 PM UTC

knocte wrote: post #4

I love the part about simplifying packaging via 'snap'. Now, I would love to know, if I'm a maintainer of Foo (and you can get it today via `apt-get install foo`), how will I be able to start packaging using snap rather than relying on deb packages that come from debian? I'd love any feedback, cheers!

Also, how does Canonical's snap compare/compete with Freedesktop/GNOME's xdg-app?

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by gnoway » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 12:23 PM UTC

poooogles wrote: post #7

tard wrote: post #3

what are they going to do when they run out of letters in the alphabet?

Go back round again with new animal names.

This appears to be the correct answer. Backed up here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by nailer » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 12:23 PM UTC

For anyone packaging software on Linux, this now means every major distro - Debian, RHEL/CentOS, Arch and now Ubuntu - supports .service files.

No need for bash scripts, custom watchdog and daemonise tools, etc.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

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Post by ctpide » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 12:26 PM UTC

ajdlinux wrote: post #10

PowerPC/ppc64el, System z and ARM/Raspberry Pi server images available at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/16.04/release/

Thanks, I was looking for this!