Ich habe einen ersten Blick auf #Ubuntu 24.04 LTS geworfen. Was ist neu? Was gefällt mir? Und warum das Release ein grosser Schritt für eingeschränkte Personen ist? Mehr dazu in meinem Blog:
💌 Thunderbird to support both 2 main universal Linux packages :tux:
Flatpak ✅ /next: an official Snap :ubuntu:
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"We love our Linux users across all Linux distributions. That is why we’ve stepped up to help maintain the Thunderbird Snap available in the Snap Store.
We took ownership of the Mozilla Thunderbird Flatpak .. We are expanding to make sure the Thunderbird Snap is officially supported too".
Last year the @thunderbird team took ownership of the Thunderbird Flatpak. Today we're announcing that we're helping to maintain the Thunderbird Snap.
Why both formats? Simple: in the spirit of free software, we want to support as many of our users as possible without discriminating on their package preferences.
Oh snap! Good news, Linux users: we're adding the Thunderbird Snap, previously maintained by the awesome Ubuntu desktop team, to our officially supported Linux packages! 📦 🐧
Learn all about why we made the change, what it means and what to expect, and where to report issues in our blog post.
I’m proud to announce the new, next-gen Linux packaging format: FlatSnappImage!
With centuries of combined packaging design experience, Red Hat, Canonical, and randos on the Internet have created the ONLY format you need. Its revolutionary design includes the best of all worlds:
• Allocating all unused disk space in case its needed in the future
• Proprietary back-end with no human review
• No sandboxing, because it just gets in the way!
To the #Linux folks here: could the #flatpak or #snap installations have a problem with the #xz issue? As I understand flatpack apps include all "binaries" they need?
I am using #LinuxMint. Would this be a security problem for me?
I updated to #Ubuntu 22.04 yesterday and got a little notification that my #apt Firefox was being switched to #snap. Weird flex, but okay.
Today, when I tried to open my local #Rust documentation with rustup doc --book, I got a page that said that the access to the file was denied.
It turns out that #snap prevents firefox opening files in hidden folders and the best workaround is to create a symbolic link to a non-hidden folder. WTH?
@manpacket I saw this last week and finally made the switch when I found that #snap#firefox could not open pages from the /tmp/ directory (snap: 2, me: 0)