Martin Wimpress

Martin Wimpress, engineering manager, Snapcraft, Ubuntu Robotics and ISV Enablement at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu.

How App Stores Are Addressing Fragmentation in the Linux Ecosystem

September 17, 2019 | AppImage, application delivery, Debian package, Flatpak, linux, software developers, spotify

According to DistroWatch, 273 Linux distributions are currently active, with another 56 dormant and 521 discontinued. While some of these have shared underpinnings, it still makes for an extremely varied landscape for ...