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ThunderSnap! Why We’re Helping Maintain The Thunderbird Snap On Linux

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Apr 05, 2024,

updated Apr 11, 2024

We love our Linux users across all Linux distributions. That is why we’ve stepped up to help maintain the Thunderbird Snap available in the Snap Store.

Last year we took ownership of the Thunderbird Flatpak, and it has been our officially recommended package for Linux users. However, we are expanding our horizons to make sure the Thunderbird Snap experience is officially supported too. We at Thunderbird are team “free software”, independent of the packaging technology. This will mostly affect our Ubuntu users but there are plenty of other Snap users out there as well.

Read on

Linuxiac:

Thunderbird to Officially Support Snap in Upcoming Ubuntu Release

In light of this, the team behind this widely-adopted email client took ownership of the Thunderbird Flatpak last year, marking it as the officially recommended package for Linux users.

WebProNews:

Thunderbird Takes Over Maintenance of the Thunderbird Snap

Snaps are Canonical’s containerized application format for Linux and directly competes with Flatpak. Both formats solve the issue of having up-to-date applications on stable, long-term-support (LTS). With traditional LTS distros, package versions are frozen for the lifespan of that release, only receiving security and bug fixes, but not new features. Snaps and Flatpaks solve this issue by including all the necessary dependencies within the package, giving users the ability to have the latest and greatest software, regardless of how old the underlying distro is.