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721.
The Red Hat Flatpak runtime for desktop containers(developers.redhat.com)
2 points by curt15 6y ago|0 comments
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by curt15 6y ago
Keepass2Android works pretty well for me. You can sync your password database via google drive or other file sharing services.
723.
by curt15 6y ago
The way canonical is pushing snap reminds me of how Google once tried to force Google+ into everything.
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by curt15 6y ago
>combined with the fact that it can and will auto-update >without your approval, even if you've told it otherwise This behavior is easy to rationalize if you think of it as a business decision. Canonical is happy to sell you an &
725.
by curt15 6y ago
Fedora is proposing to default to btrfs for its next release: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BtrfsByDefault
726.
by curt15 6y ago
"and feature-ful in some rights since they've had rootless containers longer" Does LXD actually allow you to run and manage containers as a normal user like podman does? All the official instructions involve adding one's
727.
by curt15 6y ago
>The reason for why the backend for the snap store hasn't been opensourced has been explained multiple times. Namely that it would be expensive to open source it with little benefit in return. Perhaps a business reason left unsaid i
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by curt15 6y ago
>You can’t audit them, hold them, modify them or even point snap to a different store. In particular, it's easy to inspect the sources for apt packages using "apt-get source". Snap seems to have no equivalent command.
729.
by curt15 6y ago
CBC news has an instant app.
730.
by curt15 6y ago
Facebook runs CentOS with mainline kernels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA_Nd3crBuA&feature=youtu.be
731.
ZFS focus on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: ZSys for system administrators(didrocks.fr)
2 points by curt15 6y ago|0 comments
732.
by curt15 6y ago
Flatpak ticks all of those boxes: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/wiki/Tips-&-Tricks
733.
by curt15 6y ago
The anti-features of snap seem like business decisions. Making it easy for users to use alternative stores would kneecap Canonical's paid IoT offerings https://ubuntu.com/internet-of-things . Also, I wonder if the abili
734.
Zsys on Ubuntu 20.04(didrocks.fr)
4 points by curt15 6y ago|0 comments
735.
by curt15 7y ago
When you install Google Chrome for a deb, it's already set to update through Google's own apt repository. Presumably Firefox could do the same.
736.
by curt15 7y ago
Google rebased their in-house workstation OS from Ubuntu to Debian a few years ago. https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-moves-to-debian-for-in-... I wonder if snaps a contributing factor.
737.
by curt15 7y ago
>Is Flatpak faster than Snap? Snap suffers from the overhead of having to decompress a squashfs on program launch: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/squashfs-is-a-terrible-storage-...
738.
by curt15 7y ago
Yep: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for...
739.
by curt15 7y ago
According to git, gnome-software snap support still seems to be actively developed: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/commits/mast...
740.
by curt15 7y ago
>The only 'con' is the pushing of Snap packages. The graphical "gnome software" software installer was replaced in the default install by a snap-only fork named "Snap Store" with no support for Flatpak (see
741.
by curt15 7y ago
>Ubuntu is also researching if they can get Adobe on board. Where did you hear about this?
742.
by curt15 7y ago
Of course the snap'd version has no support for flatpak apps.
743.
by curt15 7y ago
Can this white list be edited by the user?
744.
by curt15 7y ago
Red Hat is known to backport features into RHEL kernels. Could Wireguard conceivably make it into RHEL 8.x?
745.
by curt15 7y ago
BTRFS is well known for being ill-suited to VMs or databases. How come ZFS doesn't have that reputation?
746.
by curt15 7y ago
Multipass runs a full VM, complete with its own kernel and systemd.
747.
by curt15 7y ago
>Ubuntu (and probably other Debian-based Linux systems - and maybe all of them - so many distros I haven't tried or haven't played with in a long while - sigh) does it right - if you say to try again later, it will pop up the s
748.
by curt15 7y ago
But its point updates will provide the option to update the kernel. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack
749.
by curt15 7y ago
So does "right to be forgotten" mean that people don't have a right to remember?
750.
by curt15 7y ago
>Any UI program that you write will work just fine on KDE, GNOME, DWM, etc But which versions of which libraries do you target? Every distribution has its own menagerie. There is no well-defined "Linux platform" like there is w

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