The new Snap app package format is a headline feature of the new Ubuntu 16.04, touted by Canonical as a secure way of developing software that makes it impossible for an app to steal your data. "The ...

Snapcraft — the Linux package format Canonical developed for Ubuntu — now works on multiple Linux distros, including Arch, Debian, Fedora and various flavors of Ubuntu, Canonical announced last week.

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Developers from a number of GNU/Linux distributions have agreed to work on a package format known as snap that can be installed on any and all distributions. An announcement from Canonical, maker of ...