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# Blog posts tagged *"lzo"*

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[Igor Ljubuncic](https://canonical.com/blog/author/igorljubuncic)

17 March 2022

### [KDE snaps performance revving up](https://canonical.com/blog/kde-snaps-performance-revving-up)

Ubuntu

Ubuntu tech blog

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 and wrapped in a num ...

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[Ian Johnson](https://canonical.com/blog/author/anonymouse67)

23 December 2020

### [Why LZO was chosen as the new compression method](https://canonical.com/blog/why-lzo-was-chosen-as-the-new-compression-method)

Desktop

Ubuntu tech blog

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. After a thorough in ...

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