Ubuntu’s snap apps are coming to distros everywhere (Ars Technica)

Ars Technica reportsthat Ubuntu's snapd tool has beenported to other Linux distributions."To install snap packages on non-Ubuntu distributions, Linux desktopand server users will have to first install the newly cross-platformsnapd. This daemon verifies the integrity of snap packages, confines theminto their own restricted space, and acts as a launcher. Instructions forcreating snaps and installing snapd on a variety of distributions areavailable at this website.Snapd itself is installed as traditional packages on these other operatingsystems. That means there's a snapd RPM package for Fedora, forexample. It's the same snapd code for every Linux distribution, justpackaged differently, and applications packaged as snaps should work on anyLinux distro running snapd without needing to be re-packaged."Snapd is available for Arch, Debian, and Fedora. It's also being tested byCentOS, Elementary, Gentoo, Mint, openSUSE, OpenWrt and RHEL.