[dustinkirkland]

Actually, there's quite a bit of cross-distro compatibility around Snaps. Beyond Ubuntu, Snaps are known to work in Arch Linux, Debian, Gentoo, Fedora, openSUSE, Yocto, and OpenWRT. Snaps simply require a modern systemd and snapd daemons. With the appropriate SELinux profiles and an updated snapd, it's entirely feasible for the same docker.snap to run on both Ubuntu and Fedora (as well as others). You can learn more about Snaps and Linux distributions at snapcraft.io.

[sandGorgon]

And the same thing is true for Flatpak...but are we really looking forward to another 20 years of multiple packaging formats for Linux ?

The push towards static packaging is a great time to unify. The problem is that snap is based on deb..not sure about Flatpak. So we again have a political split.

I really think this is the opportunity to unify Linux packaging - anything, I don't care..but let us please have one package format.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/here-c...

[mhall119]

Snaps are descendant from deb, but they are now just squashfs images with some metadata

[itomato]

It would be great if there was a cohesive roadmap showing how Snaps fit in with Canonical's overall strategy wrt System and Application containers across Cloud and Embedded systems.

Lots of little "islets", not so much an "archipelago".