Celestial project develops Ubuntu assembly with Flatpak instead of SNAP

is presented beta-release distribution kit Celos (Celestial OS), which is a rebeling of Ubuntu 22.04, in which the Snap package management toolkit is replaced by Flatpak. Instead of installing additional applications from the A>. The size of the setting image 3.7 GB. Project operation distributed under the GPLv3 license.

The assembly includes a selection of GNOME applications distributed in Flatpak format, and the possibility of fast Installation of additional programs from the Flamatub catalog. As a user interface, an ordinary GNOME is proposed with the topic of adwaita design, as in which it develops the main project, without the use of Yaru theme proposed in Ubuntu. As an installer, a regular Ubiquity is involved.

From the basic delivery, Aisleriot packages, GNOME-Mahjongg, Gnome-Mines, Gnome-Sudoku, Evince, Libreoffice, Rhythmbox, Remmina, Shotwell, Thunderbird, Totem, Snapd, Firefox, Gedit, Cheese, Gnome-Calculator, GNOME- Calendar, Gnome-Font-Viewer, Gnome-Characters and Ubuntu-Session. Added deb packets GNOME-TWEAK-TOOL, GNOME-Software, GNOME-Software-Plugin-Flatpak, Flatpak and Gnome-Session, as well as Flatpak Packages Adwaita-Dark, EpiPhany, Gedit, Cheese, Calculator, Clocks, Calendar, Photos , Characters, Font-Viewer, Contacts, Weather and Flatseal.


Differences Flatpak from SNAP are reduced to the fact that SNAP offers a small basic runTime with a container filling based on the monolithu release of Ubuntu Core, while FlatPAK in addition to the main Runtime uses additional and separately updated Runtime-layers (Bundle) with typical dependency sets For applications. Thus, SNAP puts most of the application libraries to the side of the packages (recently It is possible Takeam of major libraries, such as GNOME and GTK libraries, in common packages), and FlatPAK offers common libraries for different packages (for example, Bundle has libraries needed to work with GNOME or KDE programs) that allows you to make packages more compact.

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