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It’s Easy to Package Any Software as a Snap for Ubuntu Linux, Says Canonical

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Marius Nestor
May 27, 2016

Starting with the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) release, Canonical surprised the community and implemented out-of-the-box support for Snap packages in the popular Linux kernel-based operating system, so that package maintainers get a head start and prepare their software projects for the Snap format.
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