Canonical Releases Updated All-Snap Ubuntu Snappy Images, Urges Users to Upgrade | Linux Today

Canonical Releases Updated All-Snap Ubuntu Snappy Images, Urges Users to Upgrade

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Marius Nestor
Feb 4, 2016

The announcement comes one day after Canonical unveiled the groundbreaking Snapcraft 2.1 snappy creator tool release for the IoT- and embedded-oriented OS, and promises to introduce new features like an all-new snap.yaml format and the addition of the “snap” command, which will eventually replace the “snappy” command at a certain point in the evolution of the project.

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Marius Nestor

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