simosx

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by simosx 4y ago
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 to swallow for the purists. T
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by simosx 5y ago
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 money for Linux support. But Linux support is good for busine
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by simosx 6y ago
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 use in their cars). Microsoft is doing the work for the
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by simosx 6y ago
Oh, on Linux, Flutter apps will have the default Ubuntu theme.
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by simosx 6y ago
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.
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by simosx 6y ago
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 the left, and when you want to close to close the applicati
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by simosx 6y ago
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 Ubuntu server in a VM. Multipass is
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by simosx 6y ago
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 is a usability package 'command-not-found', which
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by simosx 6y ago
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 when people actually believed in unspecified innate qualities
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by simosx 6y ago
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 fungi to grow. Even now, plants grow better if they have symbi
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by simosx 6y ago
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 that updates should happen. You can tak
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by simosx 6y ago
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
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by simosx 6y ago
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 request to pre-approve any permissions. Arrange with your u
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by simosx 6y ago
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 updated quickly. For Ubuntu 20.04, it has been explained (in 2019!
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by simosx 6y ago
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 can disable this feature by setting the appropriate key to `1
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by simosx 6y ago
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 any updates.
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by simosx 6y ago
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 deb package, and keep it up to date. The
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by simosx 6y ago
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 becomes a 5% market, or a 8% market, then it will open the fl
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by simosx 6y ago
Is the question whether snapd require an init, or whether snapd should be packaged to work with more init systems?
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by simosx 6y ago
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.
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by simosx 6y ago
snapd does much more.
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by simosx 6y ago
The announcement from 2019 is https://snapcraft.io/blog/chromium-in-ubuntu-deb-to-snap-tra...
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by simosx 6y ago
If you first run snap login then you can install snaps without "sudo". I suppose it is the same process with flatpaks.
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by simosx 6y ago
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... Ubuntu was not able to maintain chro
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by simosx 6y ago
"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 dependencies, that have to be packaged individually. The &quo
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by simosx 6y ago
This polemic attitude is really bad for open-source. Snap packages are good, and such efforts may help get the Linux desktop rise over the 3%. Lenovo announced they are fully supporting Ubuntu desktop for two lines of computers.
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by simosx 6y ago
snapd is a service, therefore it requires an init system.
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by simosx 6y ago
The Chromium situation has been explained already in 2019, https://snapcraft.io/blog/chromium-in-ubuntu-deb-to-snap-tra... There is no deb package in Ubuntu, so the system is setup to transparently install the snap pac
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by simosx 6y ago
If you ever want to switch, the image is `selenium/standalone-chrome`.
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by simosx 6y ago
I have been using the LXD snap and it worked just fine. The complexity should be similar to that of Docker.

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