AppStream

AppStream is an agreement between major GNU/Linux vendors (i.e. Red Hat, Canonical, SUSE, Debian, Mandriva, etc.) to create a common application installer for Linux and one unified application installation GUI and sharing of metadata.

The project describes itself as: "an initiative of cross-distro collaboration, which aims at creating an unified software metadata database, and also a centralized OCS (Open Collaboration Services) user-contributed content database, thus providing the best user experience."

See also

• Package management system
• Packagekit
• Listaller
• RUNZ
• ZeroInstall
• Ubuntu Software Center

External links

• AppStream at freedesktop.org
• Project Bretzn
• Phoronix - Introducing AppStream, Multi-Distro App Framework
• Google Summer of Code 2011 - PackageKit backend and AppStream integration for Software Center
• OpenSuse's Application Manager