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from the did-i-hear-someone-say-"fragmented"-yet-again? dept.

In the weekly wrap-up at FOSS Force, Christine Hall mentions [fossforce.com]

Once upon a time, there was hope that Linux Standard Base would bring [...] write-once-and-install-on-any-distro capability to GNU/Linux.

[Canonical's Snap packages] are simple-to-install packages that do away with the need to find dependencies and such, as everything is built right in the Snap package. Up until now, Snaps could only be installed on Ubuntu, but Canonical announced [June 14] that snapd, the tool that allows them to be installed on Ubuntu, has been ported to other distros.

According to Ubuntu's announcement: [ubuntu.com]

"Snaps now work natively on Arch, Debian, Fedora, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu. They are currently being validated on CentOS, Elementary, Gentoo, Mint, OpenSUSE, OpenWrt, and RHEL, and are easy to enable on other Linux distributions."

Another item she mentions on that page:

ExLight Linux Build 160612, [wordpress.com] a lightweight distro featuring the Enlightenment desktop, is ready to go and lighter than ever.

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