"Ubuntu Core" announced
Mark Shuttleworth has announced the
availability of "Ubuntu Core," a version of the distribution that takes a
different approach to package management. "This is in a sense the
biggest break with tradition in 10 years of Ubuntu, because Ubuntu Core
doesn’t use debs or apt-get. We call it 'snappy' because that’s the new
bullet-proof mechanism for app delivery and system updates; it’s completely
different to the traditional package-based Ubuntu server and desktop. The
snappy system keeps each part of Ubuntu in a separate, read-only file, and
does the same for each application. That way, developers can deliver
everything they need to be confident their app will work exactly as they
intend, and we can take steps to keep the various apps isolated from one
another, and ensure that updates are always perfect. Of course, that means
that apt-get won’t work, but that’s OK since developers can reuse debs to
make their snappy apps, and the core system is exactly the same as any
other Ubuntu system – server or desktop."