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@Blaze@lemm.ee to Linux@programming.devEnglish • 16 days ago

The future of Flatpak - LWN

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The future of Flatpak - LWN

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@Blaze@lemm.ee to Linux@programming.devEnglish • 16 days ago
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The future of Flatpak
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At the Linux Application Summit (LAS) in April, Sebastian Wick said that, by many metrics, Flat [...]
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    It hugely improves privacy and security

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      How so?

      The benefit is easy roll backs and roll forwards. The system is the same from a security perspective.

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      no, it doesn’t. Stuff doesn’t have write access to / anyway. Immutability just means that I don’t have write access either. Which makes no sene to me.

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