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Message started by Fernando on Apr 17th, 2017, 3:04pm

Title: Do You Remember The Pi Store?
Post by Fernando on Apr 17th, 2017, 3:04pm
During 2012 - early 2015, the Pi Store was an online repository of Linux Software for the Raspberry Pi where you can look at through a web page and click on what software you want from there and it would be downloaded and installed automatically. Issues and blame were "excuses" as to why the Pi Store was shut down, and much of the software moved to places like Git0Hub and the standard Linux Online Libraries.

Shenzhen Xunlong (makers of the Orange Pi) is attempting to open their own "Pi Store" with help from Canonical, calling it "Snap Store." Canonical is better known for their Ubuntu series of Linux (which there is a branch for the O-Pi systems) based on Debian. "Snap Store" is supposed to be what the Pi Store used to be - a website for Pi Users to click onto various software titles to download and install them. On top of that, they are allowing software developers to sell their software through them.

They just started this and the O-Pi community is questioning it. Questions like, is this software strictly for the Ubuntu Linux for the O-Pi or can any Linux the O-Pi uses can be used? Ubuntu is part of the Debian branch of Linux, and Ubuntu for the O-Pi is a branch of Armbian; so it should be compatible for all branches of Linux for the O-Pi. But Canonical is known to make their software strictly for the Ubuntu series of OS. Though the software is free (most of the time), locking them out of the other Linux Branches does not make them open source.

Lets see what happens in a few weeks.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/03/16/the-orange-pi-community-gets-a-snap-store/

Title: Re: Do You Remember The Pi Store?
Post by Hondo I. Sackett on Apr 20th, 2017, 8:52pm
Be interesting to see where it goes.

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