Application isolation

Posted Aug 23, 2018 9:52 UTC (Thu) by liw (subscriber, #6379)
In reply to: Application isolation by mgedmin
Parent article: Flatpak 1.0 released

Let's not rely on memories. The memory subsystem of human brains is even less reliable than floppies.

Wikipedia reports Snappy as being first release in December, 2014, which means it will have been in development for some time before that. (link)

Flapak's history page reports its origins as starting with Glick in 2007, with iterative evolution to what we now know as Flatpak via Glick2 and xdg-app.

Overall, it seems to me that Flatpak and Snappy have developed in parallel, learning from each other, in the way free software often does. There doesn't seem to be a clear answer to which one came first. I don't think it matters, either.

Application isolation

Posted Aug 23, 2018 23:20 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

I'll add that 0install existed in 2005, so arguing which of these was first is a moot point. They're both NIH controlled by warring factions.

Application isolation

Posted Aug 25, 2018 3:19 UTC (Sat) by chipaca (subscriber, #28655) [Link]

Snap packages are the evolution of click packages, which were what the Ubuntu Phone used. FWIW.