Is Ubuntu moving away from .deb packages? Here is the complete story

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Swapnil Bhartiya
Apr 28, 2015

After introducing Unity, HUD, Mir, Click and Snappy the sponsor of Ubuntu is now contemplating moving away from just .deb based desktop and adopting its own Snappy.

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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