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It is my understanding that that's what Flatpak is trying to do: "One of Flatpak’s main goals is to increase the security of desktop systems by isolating applic
by globuous 9y ago
It is my understanding that that's what Flatpak is trying to do: "One of Flatpak’s main goals is to increase the security of desktop systems by isolating applications from one another. [...] Limited syscalls. For instance, apps can’t use nonstandard network socket types or ptrace other processes. " [0]
But as my other comment mentions [1], I wish I had the knowledge required to understand the meaning / implications of Flatpak apps. Please let me know if I'm misunderstanding :)
Happy Saturday night y'all !
[0] http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/working-with-the-sandbox.html http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/working-with-the-sandbox.h...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16351192 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16351192