Snaps sit alongside the native packages of the base Linux operating system. Snaps enable vendors to move at the speed of the web, while targeting the stable distributions that are popular with their users. Many cloud and web applications make daily or weekly releases. Installing Jenkins, for example, becomes a single-command exercise on any distribution with snaps. Snaps also provide easy distribution for cloud and server applications. “Snap interfaces provide secure and easy integration between apps and the system, an elegant solution to the most common problem with containerised apps.” Server and cloud apps
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“Our FreeCAD snap has full access to OpenGL and other core services from the desktop environment,” said Jean-Marie Verdun of Horizon Computing, the leading provider of open hardware consulting and equipment in Europe. Snaps are richly integrated through a set of declared interfaces that provide file sharing, device sharing or other services, balancing security with ease of use. Our decision to snap up Mycroft will reduce the number of package formats we need to support over the long haul, that frees our developers to focus on new features,” said Joshua Montgomery CEO Mycroft AI which is using snaps for a voice-controlled smart-home IoT device.
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The ability to update and better secure the software over time is an added bonus.
“Publishing Mycroft as a snap is a great way to make our technology available across multiple Linux distributions. “This trusted and universal app format is essential for Dell, our IoT Solutions Partners and commercial customers to build a scalable, IT-ready, and vibrant ecosystem of IoT applications.” “We believe snaps address the security risks and manageability challenges associated with deploying and running multiple third party applications on a single IoT Gateway,” said Jason Shepherd, Director, IoT Strategy and Partnerships, Dell. “That’s why developers creating new products based on Samsung ARTIK modules want the ability to leverage an ecosystem of snaps to accelerate their product lifecycle, and why we are excited to have snaps running on ARTIK”. “The IoT market is very diverse, it’s often complex and expensive for device makers to build their full software stack”, said Curtis Sasaki, VP of Ecosystems and IOT General Manager at Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center (SSIC). Snappy devices receive automatic updates for the base OS, together with updates to the apps installed on the device. Multiple vendors have launched snappy IoT devices, enabling a new class of “smart edge” device with IoT app store. Snaps are isolated from one another to guarantee data security, and can be updated or rolled back automatically, making them perfect for connected devices. IoT gateways and smart edge devices benefit from secure updates Krita 3.0 has just been released as a snap which will be updated automatically as newer versions become available. Putting the snap in the store was particularly simple, this is the most streamlined app store I have published software in,” said Boudewijn Rempt, project lead at the Krita Foundation. deb packages in a private repository was complex and time consuming, snaps are much easier to maintain, package and distribute. With the introduction of snaps, continually optimizing Firefox will become possible, providing Linux users the most up-to-date features,” said Nick Nguyen, Vice President of Product, Firefox at Mozilla. “We strive to offer users a great experience and make Firefox available across many platforms, devices and operating systems. It is a tremendous simplification to publish a snap rather than manage diverse package formats and security update mechanisms across many Linux distributions.
The universal snap format has been welcomed by Linux application vendors.
ISVs benefit from an efficient way to deliver Linux software everywhere
A snap package is easy to create and offers significant security benefits, greatly simplifying third-party Linux app distribution. Together, these distributions represent the vast majority of common Linux usage on the desktop, server and cloud. They are currently being validated on CentOS, Elementary, Gentoo, Mint, OpenSUSE, OpenWrt and RHEL, and are easy to enable on other Linux distributions. Snaps now work natively on Arch, Debian, Fedora, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu.
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