Canonical are currently dealing with a security incident with the Snap store, after users noticed multiple fake apps were uploaded so temporary limits have been put in place.
Canonical are currently dealing with a security incident with the Snap store, after users noticed multiple fake apps were uploaded so temporary limits have been put in place.
I find the shitting on Snap technology itself unreasonable. I left Ubuntu LTS for Debian Stable partly due to Snaps (and Debian is supreme distro), but the technology itself has a massive advantage over Flatpak if it became more adopted – system integration.
Malicious actors being able to upload Snaps and them being less vetted is moreso a weakness of FOSS infrastructure underfunding, and not because “snap bad”.
Big issue with snaps for me has always been the proprietary backend and that they try to make a new standard instead of improving flatpak which most distros have alrady adopted
Canonical loves reinventing the wheel instead of using and improving something that already exists. It’s also either source-available (not OSS, as no contributions are possible) or closed-source. Examples are Mir (Wayland), Snaps (flatpak) and Unity (GNOME 3).
Unity wasn’t FOSS? And they tried to make a non-FOSS window manager as well?