Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with Unity 7 to Support Snappy Packages

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The upcoming Ubuntu 16.04 LTS will continue to use Unity 7 as the default desktop environment, and that’s been known for quite a while. Canonical also aims to offer the Unity 8 desktop as an alternative until it becomes stable enough to take the place of the old one.

Canonical wants to adopt the Snappy packages for the regular Ubuntu distro, not just the phone. They used to be called click packages, but that terminology is no longer used. They are now called Snappy Personal, Snappy, or just snaps. Their name is less important than the fact that they bring a new type of package management.

These new packages have some improvements over the older debs, but it will take a while until they get some traction. It will help if Snappy package will also be available for the vast majority of Ubuntu users, who are not moving away from Unity 7 anytime soon.

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