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by alexlarsson 8y ago
It should support it as well as deb or rpm does. I.e. it is completely uninvolved in drag-and-drop.
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by alexlarsson 8y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17799345
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Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time(flatpak.org)
254 points by alexlarsson 8y ago|204 comments
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by alexlarsson 8y ago
The video said everything on it was 100% submersible and saltwater-proof, and then all you need is an air bubble in the "sail" and it will eventually float up with the right side up, no?
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by alexlarsson 9y ago
Slack is packaged as flatpak on flathub: https://flathub.org/apps.html Various versions of firefox as flatpak are here: https://firefox-flatpak.mojefedora.cz/ Getting some of those on flathub is a work in
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by alexlarsson 9y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by the flatpak comment. "flatpak update" is the (built-in) command update all your installed flatpaks. What is not built in is a daemon that regularly runs this, because the idea is to integrate tha
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by alexlarsson 9y ago
It cannot know, but it can extend what’s around it to something that “looks believable”. I don’t fundamentally think it is different from asking an artist to complete the image. You’ll get an image, but no actual information about what was
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by alexlarsson 9y ago
Its still available via the way-back machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20150219055858/http://www.pha.jh...
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by alexlarsson 9y ago
Is this a response to cri-o taking Docker out of Kubernetes?
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On application sizes and bloat in flatpak(blogs.gnome.org)
1 points by alexlarsson 9y ago|0 comments
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by alexlarsson 9y ago
I added a flatpak version of the editor to flathub, in case anyone wants to test it: https://flathub.org/apps.html
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by alexlarsson 9y ago
IF the goal is bootstrapping another approach would be to use the llvm c backend to generate a version of rustc and cargo that can be built by a c compiler.
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by alexlarsson 9y ago
Cars are actually a great example of where things have become highly complex, which means that they are now essentially impossible to fix yourself. On the other hand, for regular day-to-day use they are a lot better.
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by alexlarsson 9y ago
Sure, it all depends on how you define a "blank slate". The whole world of engineering is a huge stack, and near the bottom are things like smelting iron and making plastic, up a few layers you have things like standardized screws
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by alexlarsson 9y ago
You think a toaster is simple? Try building one from scratch! This guy did: http://www.thetoasterproject.org and it was HARD!
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by alexlarsson 9y ago
Gtk+ is accessible on Linux, just not the win32 build.
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by alexlarsson 9y ago
Yeah, the data dependencies means this will never be fast. Additionally, "(haystack[4] <= needle) ? 4 : 0" is basically a branch. I mean, a smart compiler could make it a conditional move, but that is in no way guaranteed.
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by alexlarsson 10y ago
Finally they added this! I submitted a PR for this over two years ago ( https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/4232 ).
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by alexlarsson 10y ago
Thats sad. I would like to support hardware companies supporting FOSS. Has anyone tried the purism laptops: https://puri.sm/products/
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by alexlarsson 10y ago
Installing in the users homedirectory is not a new feature added by these systems though, its always been possible. If you want to avoid that you have to e.g. mount /tmp and /home noexec, or use e.g. selinux policies to do the sam
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by alexlarsson 10y ago
Flatpak also has atomic transactional updates (and automatic deduplication similar to nix) via ostree. Also, Snap doesn't use namespaces, they install each app in a separate prefix which the app finds via various environment variables.
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Portals: Using GTK+ in a Flatpak(blogs.gnome.org)
22 points by alexlarsson 10y ago|9 comments
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by alexlarsson 10y ago
Runtimes are not package dependencies. They are not separated from the app to allow dependency resolution. They are separated out in order to allow a different entity to maintain and update them. The idea is that they are pretty minimal (to
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by alexlarsson 10y ago
flatpak works with X, it will just be less secure
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by alexlarsson 10y ago
Flatpak uses ostree, which is content-addressed, so any identical files are automatically shared.
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by alexlarsson 11y ago
From that page: Warning: Being a member of the docker group is equivalent to having root access. Not a great way to limit privileges.
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by alexlarsson 11y ago
This seems like a pretty bad idea. All you do is work around the security rules of the agency. If your "easy to install" software has some kind of security exploit in it you just gave someone access to all the work you were doing
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by alexlarsson 11y ago
Also, many purely mathematical models of computing like turing machines are definitely not functional.
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by alexlarsson 11y ago
c++
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by alexlarsson 11y ago
Just build with --without-java

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