Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time

Re:Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday August 20, 2018 @10:16AM (#17800049)

Snaps are Canonical's NIH take on Flatpak (previously known as xdg-app). Fragmentation for fragmentations sake.

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Re:Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time by thibran on Monday August 20, 2018 @10:58AM (#17800467)

Sure it's Canonical's NIH and not Red Hat NIH, since both got released in December 2014?

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Re:Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time by jhasse on Monday August 20, 2018 @01:01PM (#17801618)

Yes, because Snap doesn't support different repositories easily and everything atm is based on Ubuntu base-images. Also the license is GPL+CLA allowing Canonical to relicense it under a proprietary license. Furthermore they require AppArmore for some features which some distros can't use (it isn't part of the mainline kernel AFAIK).

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Re:Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time by jhasse on Monday August 20, 2018 @01:05PM (#17801667)

Okay I was wrong: AppArmor is part of the mainline Linux kernel. I think it were some Ubuntu-specific patches then which were required for some of the sandbox features. I will try to find where I read it again.

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Re:Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time by privateSFacct on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:39AM (#17816343)

Thanks for the follow-up and details - I wasn't aware of all this.

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Re:Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday August 20, 2018 @11:07AM (#17800566)

Fair enough. On the otherhand, does it really matter? The result is the same. GNUStep had Application Bundles and was developed in the 90s. ROX Filer had AppDirs and was developed in the late 90s and early aughties. Klik (now AppImage) was developed in the early aughties.

There's plenty of NIH to go around on this one.

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