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Considering that Flatpak was essentially a hostile fork of the AppImage project motivated by Red Hat's insatiable hunger for control, I find it ironic when Flat
by fapjacks 6y ago
Considering that Flatpak was essentially a hostile fork of the AppImage project motivated by Red Hat's insatiable hunger for control, I find it ironic when Flatpak supporters complain about Canonical "doing their own thing".
- the_why_of_y 6y agoFlatPak has nothing to do with AppImage, is in no way shape or from a fork of it. https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2018/06/20/flatpak-a-history/ https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2018/06/20/flatpak-a-history/ AppImage only solves the easy part of the generic-linux-app problem, namely running the packaged appimage; it does nothing to solve the hard parts: how do you build the application so that it will actually run on generic Linux distributions, and sandboxing.
- thecureforzits 6y agoGot a source for any of those claims?