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Flatpak and Snaps aren’t destined for graveyard of failed Linux tech yet

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Scott Gilbertson
May 1, 2017

The world of Linux has long been divided into tribes, or distros as we called them. But what actually makes a distro? The packages it uses? The people who put those packages together? The philosophy behind the choices the people who put the packages together make? The question of what makes a distro is actually very difficult on to answer and it’s about to get even more difficult.
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