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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Coje_He for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com June 1, Canonical engineer Oliver Grawert recently revealed that in order to meet the needs of different users for operating system building formats, the next long-term supported version of Ubuntu next year will provide two downloadable desktop versions.

It is reported that the first version is based on the default version of deb, continuing the long-standing tradition of Ubuntu, while the second version is based entirely on the "new experimental version" built by Snap.

The source PixabayCTOnews.com notes that the deb format is derived from Debian, the upstream release of Ubuntu, while Snap is a packaging format developed independently by Canonical. Compared with deb,Snap, there is no need to consider dependency issues, multiple versions will not interfere with each other, security and maintainability are also relatively higher.

The current immutable desktop distribution is becoming a popular trend. Distributions such as Fedora Silverblue and EndlessOS took the lead in adopting this build model. These distributions provide greater security and reliability and bring features such as transactional updates and easy rollback. Ubuntu is the first time to provide fans with an immutable desktop version based on Snap, but this version is not available as the default option, so friends who are interested in CTOnews.com need to choose to download it themselves to try this alternative version.

Yesterday, Till Kamppeter, developer of Canonical and project leader of OpenPrinting, said they planned to use the Snap version of CUPS as their printing system on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur). CUPS is an open source modular printing system for Linux. In addition to Linux, this open source printing system is also widely used in Unix and macOS. At present, OpenPrinting has released the Snap version of CUPS in Snapcraft, so friends can also download, install and use it in advance.

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