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Re:Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later by zokier on Friday October 02, 2020 @09:09AM (#24662198)
Linux is not an operating system or a platform, it's a kernel. Ubuntu, RHEL, Suse etc are operating systems, but more importantly they are separate independent operating systems. Their interoperability pretty much starts and ends with POSIX, everything else being more of a happy coincidence. And many of those major Linux-based OSs have strong vendor behind them.

Same way you don't expect cohesiveness between macOS and Windows, I think it is bit unreasonable to expect cohesiveness between RHEL and Ubuntu or whatever.

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Re:Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later by srtjstjsj on Friday October 02, 2020 @09:20AM (#24662274)
POSIX had a patch update 3 years ago, a minor update 12 years ago, and a major update 19 years ago.

That's the problem.

The desktop distros could and should have done a lot better to coordinate on fundamentals of user experience in the age of the open/hostile Internet and frequently updated software.

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Re:Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later by viraptor on Friday October 02, 2020 @09:25AM (#24662316)
POSIX does not know much about desktops really. If you want coordination in fundamentals of desktops, look at Freedesktop specs https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/
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Re:Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later by srtjstjsj on Friday October 02, 2020 @09:32AM (#24662387)
Thanks for the referral!

Unfortunately the website isn't loading for me. Wikipedia shows their projects seem to be focused on lower level graphics/UI issues, but not app packaging and security issues that have become very important in past 10 years.

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Re:Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later by the_why_of_y on Saturday October 03, 2020 @06:06AM (#24670923)
FlatPak was freedesktop.org's app packaging and security project for a couple years, when it was still called xdg-app. It's hosted on github today.

https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2015/06/24/xdg-app-moving-to-f...

https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Flatpak/

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