who is Flatpak?

You don’t know the infamous hacker packaging method named Flatpak?

no 😕

Third sentence:

Flatpak serves as the primary application distribution method for image-based operating systems including Fedora Silverblue, openSUSE Aeon, SteamOS, and GNOME OS. It is the preferred format for major ecosystems such as GNOME, KDE, and elementary.

How do you invest in a “package distribution method”?

By giving them money?

Who

Flatpak

What

Recruiting people, allocating resources like dedicated developers for a few months, putting money in infrastructure like CI and hosting resources, have programs in place to reward security issues and disclosures, etc.

There’s a lot of places to use and invest money in open source.

Well they don’t grow on trees, do they?

It would be crazy if packaging methods grew on trees lol. But a tree is technically also an investment anyway.

Great news!

Investment is nice… but what are they actually investing in? Flatpak kinda works already. What are they planning on spending 500k on?

It’s for security sandboxing features

I mean you could read the linked blog post where they explain it

These articles are meant to be read, that’s the premise of posting them.

Flatpak is a mature project and the best option that exists on GNU/Linux today, but its security and sandboxing features still trail behind those of well-funded proprietary platforms such as Android and iOS.

the best option

Big asterisk but ok

Would you rather snaps?

No, I’d rather install an APT package like God intended

I uninstalled all of flatpak and never looked back. I love wasting gigabytes on duplicate dependencies just to run the two flatpak apps.

That was part of the quote from the article, so I’m not sure why you’re responding to me about it.

I’m just replying in regard to your comment’s quoted section of the article, so I’m not sure why you’re responding to me about it

I’m not sure what I’m replying in regards to. I think I just wanted to be part of this.

You know what, fair, that’s my bad.

Most of the time I don’t even read the article so my bad too