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The snapd and snap tools enable systems to work with .snap files.

12 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 1 story, 11 comments · first 2017-02-03 · latest 2023-11-24

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  1. …so someone must've just copy pasted it and modified to work with Firefox. GrEaT SeCuRiTy! [1]: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/blob/3a88dc38ca122eba97192...
    comment by jeremija · 2023-11-24 · in Snaps. Why? Please Stop
  2. …since it looks like the issues raised by the SUSE Security audit are not all fixed yet: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/projects/4
    comment by Conan_Kudo · 2020-08-16 · in Why is there only one Snap Store?
  3. Am I missing something isn't https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft and https://github.com/snapcore/snapd Free Software under the GPL3. I had seen some discussion before about the server not being open source but I can clearly see the store…
    comment by olafura · 2020-06-07 · in Snaps are an anti-pattern on Ubuntu
  4. …interested, I found the link: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/wip-refresh-app-awareness/10736 and https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/projects/3 It is actively being worked on.
    comment by rlpb · 2020-06-06 · in Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap
  5. …which presumably has the intended effects of keeping non-Canonical contributions close to zero. https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.m...
    comment by the_why_of_y · 2020-04-25 · in Disabling Snaps in Ubuntu 20.04
  6. As far as I was told, snap sandboxing only works with a specially-patched (and apparmor-enabled) kernel [1], though I am not sure what the current status is. I would like to know what's better implemented in snap, it seems this is simply a…
    comment by MayeulC · 2018-10-10 · in Flatpak – a security nightmare
  7. Seems you're on Debian. ATM, confinement doesn't work there, though they promise to fix it soon ( https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/wiki/Distributions#debian ).
    comment by trespasserw · 2017-10-03 · in Modern terminal-based text editor
  8. I don't understand what's with this issue: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/2236 What does Intel RealSense have to do with any of this? Is it a GitHub bug, showing an issue from another repo?
    comment by k_sze · 2017-02-04 · in Snaps are universal Linux packages
  9. …use interfaces to go out of its confinement and access things that the user has agreed to allow: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/wiki/Interfaces
    comment by elopio · 2017-02-03 · in Snap install openstackclients
  10. Here's the status of support everywhere: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/wiki/Distributions
    comment by elopio · 2017-02-03 · in Snap install openstackclients
  11. …of people have starred the repo. Anyway, it's not too hard to see why they have so many commits: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/commits/master?after=Y3Vyc... They're taking "make lots of tiny commits" advice to an almost comical…
    comment by jlarocco · 2017-02-03 · in Snaps are universal Linux packages