Wow... Unity, Mir, Ubuntu phone/tablet all going bye bye

[Jerry Snitselaar]

Most everyone else seems to be settling on appimage or flatpak

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Matthew Crews <mattcrews at mattcrews.com>
wrote:

> That's what I thought. That is something that will be immensely useful for
> all distros, so hopefully development continues. Or at worst, it becomes
> the Ubuntu Secret Sauce (tm)
>
> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017, 13:58 Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> snappy is a containerized application distribution of Ubuntu. aimed at
>> IOT and Server/VM deployments. it also features a much different update
>> schema so you have fewer needs to restart.
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Matthew Crews <mattcrews at mattcrews.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Remind us what Snappy is. I think I know, but I'm not sure.
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017, 13:22 Jerry Snitselaar <dev at snitselaar.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Nathan @ 2017-04-06 01:35 GMT:
>>
>> > On 2017-04-05 14:02, Brian Cluff wrote:
>> >
>> >> I'm a little split.  While ultimately I think that not having Unity
>> >> around will better focus development at a more common level; it's sad
>> >> to see so much development time and energy spend on something just to
>> >> have it abandoned.  Hopefully the good parts of Unity will make it
>> >> into other projects so that they can live on.
>> >
>> >
>> > It's interesting that you say that. It seems to me we (people in
>> > general) have really bad memories. Didn't they ultimately decide to fork
>> > and leave Gnome because the developers of Gnome refused to work with and
>> > or cooperate with the Canonical guys? The Gnome people haven't changed
>> > one bit, so Canonical must have forgotten and they suddenly think the
>> > Gnome guys will welcome their code bits? I don't see that happening at
>> > all. It is a shame the development will be lost, and more of a shame
>> > that future development will just be a complete waste.
>> >
>>
>> Is there a link to this? Seeing as the gnome project seems to get along
>> with every other distro I'm not sure the problem was on their end.
>>
>> With Unity, Mir, and Upstart being canned, any thoughts on whether
>> snappy will survive?
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >> Too bad they couldn't have decided to shift to KDE... but that's just
>> >> my own self service opinion. :-)
>> >
>> > I am a proud Gnome hater. I am an even prouder KDE supporter, so I
>> > second your opinion!
>>
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>> Stephen
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