Clear Linux Developers Weigh Supporting Snaps - Phoronix
In Summary : While Clear Linux augments their package/bundle archive with Flatpak support on the desktop, they are currently deciding wh...
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In Summary :
While Clear Linux augments their package/bundle archive with Flatpak support on the desktop, they are currently deciding whether to also support Snaps that are commonly associated with Ubuntu Linux.
In responding to a user feature request to add Snap support to the performance-optimized distribution in order to support more desktop software, the response was initially rejected. The basis was that they would rather ship optimized versions of these source-based programs in Clear itself, "Our goal isn't to make desktop applications less optimized and include these in clearlinux natively (as much as possible). If software is only available as snap and not as source code, than that is a problem on the upstream side of things."
The matter of Snap support on the Intel OTC operating system was then brought up on their mailing list. Among the highlights from that discussion so far:
- Some waiting on Clear Linux to properly support Chromium/Chrome with hardware-accelerated FFmpeg support... This does appear to be quite a common request on the Clear Linux desktop front. That FFmpeg support needed for Chromium has so far been blocked on legal grounds similar to other Linux distributions until having a cleaned-up / sanitized version to ship. [...]
kindly refer the following link as follow up :
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Clear-Linux-Weighs-Snaps
While Clear Linux augments their package/bundle archive with Flatpak support on the desktop, they are currently deciding whether to also support Snaps that are commonly associated with Ubuntu Linux.
In responding to a user feature request to add Snap support to the performance-optimized distribution in order to support more desktop software, the response was initially rejected. The basis was that they would rather ship optimized versions of these source-based programs in Clear itself, "Our goal isn't to make desktop applications less optimized and include these in clearlinux natively (as much as possible). If software is only available as snap and not as source code, than that is a problem on the upstream side of things."
The matter of Snap support on the Intel OTC operating system was then brought up on their mailing list. Among the highlights from that discussion so far:
- Some waiting on Clear Linux to properly support Chromium/Chrome with hardware-accelerated FFmpeg support... This does appear to be quite a common request on the Clear Linux desktop front. That FFmpeg support needed for Chromium has so far been blocked on legal grounds similar to other Linux distributions until having a cleaned-up / sanitized version to ship. [...]
kindly refer the following link as follow up :
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Clear-Linux-Weighs-Snaps
