<story><title>Ubuntu 15.04 Launches with Support for OpenStack Kilo, New LXD Hypervisor</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/21/ubuntu-15-04-launches-with-support-for-openstack-kilo-new-lxd-hypervisor-and-snappy-core/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baldfat</author><text>I have been saying that Linux traditional package management is out dated and needs to be re-invented.&lt;p&gt;Why do we need to share all the libraries? Shouldn&amp;#x27;t most of them be self contained? Can&amp;#x27;t we just intall into a directory and uninstall by removing a directory? Sounds a lot like containers to me but simpler and not virtual.&lt;p&gt;So maybe we can see a systemd packagemanagement system :) Just kidding but hmmmm.</text></item><item><author>leaveyou</author><text>Will there ever be a desktop version of Ubuntu with snappy ? Snappy seems to have some very interesting advantages..</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>Security updates and bloat are some reasons. If there is a serious bug in glibc a single OS update usually fixes it.&lt;p&gt;If you installed 20 applications with their own statically or privately stashed (but still dynamically linked) glibc versions, unless you have an agreement with the app author&amp;#x2F;vendor it will be hard to maintain updates.&lt;p&gt;This might not matter for consumer applications but in large environments (banks, DoD etc, this matters).&lt;p&gt;Not saying I agree or advocate that way is better and nothing should be changed, I am just presenting what the typical arguments are.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ubuntu 15.04 Launches with Support for OpenStack Kilo, New LXD Hypervisor</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/21/ubuntu-15-04-launches-with-support-for-openstack-kilo-new-lxd-hypervisor-and-snappy-core/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baldfat</author><text>I have been saying that Linux traditional package management is out dated and needs to be re-invented.&lt;p&gt;Why do we need to share all the libraries? Shouldn&amp;#x27;t most of them be self contained? Can&amp;#x27;t we just intall into a directory and uninstall by removing a directory? Sounds a lot like containers to me but simpler and not virtual.&lt;p&gt;So maybe we can see a systemd packagemanagement system :) Just kidding but hmmmm.</text></item><item><author>leaveyou</author><text>Will there ever be a desktop version of Ubuntu with snappy ? Snappy seems to have some very interesting advantages..</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wmf</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re kidding but they aren&amp;#x27;t: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;0pointer.net&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;0pointer.net&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;revisiting-how-we-put-together-linu...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;xdg-app is similar but with less btrfs: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.gnome.org&amp;#x2F;Projects&amp;#x2F;SandboxedApps&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.gnome.org&amp;#x2F;Projects&amp;#x2F;SandboxedApps&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>