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Not to be confused with Flatpack.
Flatpak
Developer(s)Alex Larsson, Flatpak Team
Stable release
0.9.6
Repository
Written inC
Operating systemLinux
TypeApplication virtualization
LicenseLGPL[1]
Websiteflatpak.org

Flatpak (formerly xdg-app) is a software utility for software deployment, package management, and application virtualization for Linux desktop computers. It provides a sandbox environment in which users can run applications in isolation from the rest of the system.[2][3] Applications using Flatpak need permission from the user to control hardware devices or access the user's files.[4]

The idea was first proposed in 2013 by Lennart Poettering,[3] who published an article about it in 2014.[5][6] Developed as part of the freedesktop.org project (formerly known as X Desktop Group or XDG),[7] it was originally called xdg-app.[8]

As of February 2017, some popular apps available as Flatpaks include Blender, Skype, Spotify, LibreOffice,[9] Pitivi,[10] KDE Applications[11] and development versions of Mozilla Firefox.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ "LGPL". xdg-app repository. freedesktop.org. Retrieved 2016-11-21. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |website= (help)
  2. ^ Larsson, Alexander (29 April 2016). "Using bubblewrap in xdg-app". Alexander Larsson: Cool links and commentary. GNOME. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
  3. ^ a b Willis, Nathan (2015-01-21). "GNOME and application sandboxing revisted". LWN. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  4. ^ Willis, Nathan (2015-08-12). "Working with xdg-app application bundles". LWN. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  5. ^ corbet (1 September 2014). "Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems". LWN. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  6. ^ Poettering, Lennart (1 September 2014). "Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems". Pid Eins.
  7. ^ "Flatpak - the future of application distribution". Retrieved 2016-12-16.
  8. ^ Larsson, Alexander (9 May 2016). "Renamed to flatpak in git". freedesktop.org. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  9. ^ "LibreOffice in Flatpak format". LibreOffice. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  10. ^ "Pitivi-download". Pitivi. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  11. ^ "kde-applications". KDE Flatpak. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  12. ^ "Unofficial Firefox Developer Edition flatpak repository". Unofficial Firefox Developer Edition flatpak repository. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
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