Blog posts tagged
"lzo"

2 posts


Igor Ljubuncic
17 March 2022

KDE snaps performance revving up

Article Ubuntu

Speed, or rather, responsiveness is an essential part of the software usage experience. This applies to every technology and domain, snaps included. Indeed, when it comes to snaps, the equation is a bit more complicated and slightly less straightforward because snaps are packaged as compressed, standalone applications...

Igor Ljubuncic
17 March 2022


Ian Johnson
23 December 2020

Why LZO was chosen as the new compression method

Article Desktop

Everyone wants fast applications. Recently, we provided a mechanism to make snap applications launch faster by using the LZO format. We introduced this change because users reported desktop snaps starting more slowly than the same applications distributed via traditional, native Linux packaging formats like Deb or RPM....

Ian Johnson
23 December 2020