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Ubuntu 18.10 Is Codenamed The "Cosmic Cuttlefish", Will Focus On Security

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  • #21
    Originally posted by uid313 View Post
    Yes, I've heard of Snap. But Snap packages are very large, several hundred megabytes even for smaller applications.
    There is some truth to that, even though the reality is not nearly as bad as one would think:

    1. Snap got that reputation initially, when the first packages released were indeed gigantic. That has changed a lot as developers and package maintainers learned to better use snapcraft, and with the availability of "platform" snaps like gnome-3-26-1604 that factor out many of the dependencies. LibreOffice, for example, went from over 1G to ~ 470 MB (and that's with all the theoretically optional components, Java runtime included). How much disk space does LO take on Windows? Or MS Office, for that matter?

    2. There is an optical illusion at play here. The LibreOffice snap, for example, looks larger than the equivalent collection of debs... BUT, look at the size of all the third-party libs, packages, runtimes and tools that LO requires and that are pulled in if you install it with apt-get. The total installed sizes are suddenly much much more similar.

    3. In an age when even laptops commonly have 500G of storage space available, who the f*ck cares? ;-)

    Originally posted by uid313 View Post
    I don't know how much security Snap offers in the real world since its not uncommon for Snap software use the "unconfined" configuration.
    Actually it is very uncommon. In the snap store, which is where most (ok, not all) snap software is distributed, you can't use the "classic" configuration (that's the unconfined one) without requesting it first and going through a process of human review and community vetting.

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