Used by millions around the world, Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively. Slack works seamlessly with other software tools within a single integrated environment, providing an accessible archive of an organisation's communications, information and projects. Although Slack has grown at a rapid rate in the 4 years since their inception, their desktop engineering team who work across Windows, MacOS and Linux consists of just 4 people currently. We spoke to Felix Rieseberg, Staff Software Engineer, who works on this team following the release of Slack's first snap last month to discover more about the company's attitude to the Linux community and why they decided to build a snap.
Install Slack snap
Can you tell us about the Slack snap which has been published?
We launched our first snap last month as a new way to distribute to our Linux community. In the enterprise space, we find that people tend to adopt new technology at a slower pace than consumers, so we will continue to offer a .deb package.
What level of interest do you see for Slack from the Linux community?
I'm excited that interest for Slack is growing across all platforms, so it is hard for .. cntd
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