12–14 Sept 2022
Europe/Dublin timezone

Sandboxing/Containerizing alternatives to Snap for Printer Applications or CUPS

14 Sept 2022, 18:00
30m
"Meeting 1&2" (Clayton Hotel on Burlington Road)

"Meeting 1&2"

Clayton Hotel on Burlington Road

90
Open Printing MC Open Printing MC

Speakers

Michael Sweet (Lakeside Robotics Corporation) Till Kamppeter (OpenPrinting / Canonical) Valentin Viennot (Canonical)

Description

There are Snaps of CUPS and 5 Printer Applications, but Snap has also disadvantages, most prominently the one-and-only Snap Store and also that some desktop apps start up slowly. Are there alternatives to create distribution-independent packages, especially of Printer Applications? Docker? Flatpak? AppImage? …?

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-March-2022/#flatpak-and-printing
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-April-2022/#appimage-and-printing
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-May-2022/#official-docker-image-of-cups-and-printer-applications

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Primary author

Till Kamppeter (OpenPrinting / Canonical)

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