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SnapOS installer V2.5

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The Debian layer is native.

A .deb on SnapOS now behaves as it would on a Debian computer:

  • Install scripts run with every power, as root, like on Debian. The limits added in 2.0 are gone.
  • Packages that bring a system service are installed instead of refused. The program works; its service does not start inside the layer, and SnapOS says so.
  • The layer is not a sandbox. A program in it can do what it could do on Debian.

The protection is SnapGuard: every .deb is scanned before it is installed, and a threat goes to quarantine.

Everything from 2.4.1 stays: Steam and other 32-bit programs, the update window at login, the snapos commands, x86_64 and ARM64 images, four desktops, SnapGuard in real time.

Flash with balenaEtcher. Checksums in the .sha256 files.