snapstore VS ubuntu-desktop-installer

- from https://github.com/noise/snapstore/

the snapstore demonstrated there is no longer in the github repo, or compatible with snapd anymore https://github.com/noise/snapstore

The current Snap Store is not open source. The one you referenced is dead as proven by the repo you're article refers to: https://github.com/noise/snapstore/

If you're referring to the old HOWTO article for hosting your own snap store server, the software it used to do that stopped working several years ago.

That's nice and all, but besides the complete lack of official serversoftware that can be hosted by anyone, I'm going to guess that forcing another URL would mean that it uses that repo INSTEAD OF the official one. With regular package managers and Flatpaks, that's not the case. You can add repo's in ADDITION to the originals with those. The only mention of a self-hostable snap server that I can find, is this one. However, it is an unofficial server and has been depreciated. In other words: it's not compatible/functional with the latest version of Snapd (the clientside) anymore and will remain like that.

They used to have an example implementation here, though: https://ubuntu.com/blog/howto-host-your-own-snap-store https://github.com/noise/snapstore

interesting read. unfortunately, the 'snapstore' github project (here) that it links to now says:

Your link is an blogpost from 2016 that points to: https://github.com/noise/snapstore README: snapstore was a minimalist example of a "store" for snaps, but is not compatible with the current snapd implementation. As a result I have removed the contents here to avoid further confusion.

In fact, Bret Barker has published an open source (Apache License) SNAP store on GitHub. We’re already looking at how to flesh out his proof-of-concept and bring it into snapcore itself.

https://github.com/noise/snapstore/

It appears ZFS option will be included, it just isn't the top priority and might take some time.

Outside of Google, there are also high profile uses of Flutter. BMW used Flutter for MyBMW (https://flutter.dev/showcase/bmw). An even more interesting use case for Flutter is the one being done by Toyota, who are using Flutter for their infotainment systems (https://flutter.dev/showcase/toyota). Finally, back to the tech industry, Canonical is using Flutter to develop Ubuntu's installer (https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-installer).

Work done by Canonical with their Desktop Installer, Sonos with the setup sequence, foldable support by Microsoft's Andrei Diaconu, Raspberry PI support and e-ink POC by Simon Lightfoot. The list could go on and on.

I understand there's a new installer coming with Ubuntu 22.04 so maybe that will be an option for Kubuntu at some point.

I can't speak with authority about the replacement Ubuntu Desktop Installer as whilst I'm involved with Ubuntu (and all flavors help each other), we don't always keep up with the technologies we aren't going to be using ourselves (I'm with the Lubuntu team that currently use calamares).

Presumably the new Ubuntu installer being built with Flutter:

https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-installer

Not sure if that's already in this version.