Snaps (https://snapcraft.io/) are an application-packaging technology created by Canonical designed to be developer-friendly by including dependencies instead of breaking them up into smaller packages like deb and rpm formats do.

Personally I don't think think Snappy is very well designed, but as long as they lower the barrier of entry for application distribution on desktop Linux then it's a net positive.

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 10:01 Chuck Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> wrote:

What's a snap?

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 09:57:12AM -0400, Richard Klein wrote:
> Microsoft PowerShell is now available as a Snap:
> https://betanews.com/2018/07/20/microsoft-powershell-core-linux-snap/
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