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Canonical Wants to Bring Its Ubuntu Snappy Technologies to Android Devices

The biggest new feature implemented in the Snapd 2.27 release is Android boot support, which should bring the Ubuntu Snappy technologies to a wide range of devices that are powered by Google’s Linux-based Android mobile operating system, implementing support for transactional updates. Another interesting feature introduces in the Snapd 2.27 release is the snap-update-ns tool, which has been in development for a very long time. The tool promises to allow for changes to be performed dynamically in the file system inside the Snap mount namespace, which wasn’t possible until now.

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