Flatpak
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Developer(s) | Alex Larsson, Flatpak Team |
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Repository | |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Linux |
Type | Application virtualization |
License | LGPL[1] |
Website | flatpak |
Flatpak, named xdg-app until May 2016,[2] is a software utility for software deployment, package management, and application virtualization for Linux desktop computer environments. The utility provides a sandbox environment called Bubblewrap,[3] in which users can run applications in isolation from the rest of the system.[4] Applications using Flatpak need permission from the user to control hardware devices or access the user's files.[5]
The idea was first proposed in 2013 by Lennart Poettering,[4] who published an article about it in 2014.[6][7] Developed as part of the freedesktop.org project (formerly known as X Desktop Group or XDG),[8] it was originally called xdg-app.[2] The freedesktop.org server is the canonical home of the Flatpak project.[9]
As of February 2017[update], some popular apps available as Flatpaks include Blender, Skype, Spotify, LibreOffice,[10] Pitivi[11], KDE Applications[12] or development versions of Mozilla Firefox.[13]
References
- ^ "LGPL". xdg-app repository. freedesktop.org. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
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(help) - ^ a b Larsson, Alexander (9 May 2016). "Renamed to flatpak in git". freedesktop.org. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
- ^ Larsson, Alexander (29 April 2016). "Using bubblewrap in xdg-app". Alexander Larsson: Cool links and commentary. GNOME. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ^ a b Willis, Nathan (2015-01-21). "GNOME and application sandboxing revisted". LWN. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
- ^ Willis, Nathan (2015-08-12). "Working with xdg-app application bundles". LWN. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
- ^ corbet (1 September 2014). "Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems". LWN. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
- ^ Poettering, Lennart (1 September 2014). "Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems". Pid Eins.
- ^ "Flatpak - the future of application distribution". Retrieved 2016-12-16.
- ^ Larsson, Alex (2015-12-17). "github or freedesktop?". xdg-app (Mailing list). Retrieved 2016-01-03.
- ^ "LibreOffice in Flatpak format". LibreOffice. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
- ^ "Pitivi-download". Pitivi. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ^ "kde-applications". KDE Flatpak. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
- ^ "Unofficial Firefox Developer Edition flatpak repository". Unofficial Firefox Developer Edition flatpak repository. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
See also