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Distributors entering Flatpakland

Distributors entering Flatpakland

Posted Jul 8, 2022 15:54 UTC (Fri) by ju3Ceemi (subscriber, #102464)
Parent article: Distributors entering Flatpakland

flatpak = static binary with additional features

Basically, that's a windows 2000 level of security, where every software needs to be upgraded by itself, so every package that is not under active development turns into a security nightmare

This is a remake of containers : I wonder why flatpak and not docker ? Why not self-contained binary (the kind of 500MB binary we find somewhere) ? A single file, easy usage, just copy it somewhere and execute it ?

There are good points for those kind of technology
Security is not one of them


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