houston vs flatpak

houston

Debian-repository-based AppCenter Dashboard, the backend for elementary AppCenter on elementary OS 5.1 and earlier. (by elementary)

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Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework (by flatpak)

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houston		flatpak
	Project
3	Mentions	431
163	Stars	4,055
-	Growth	1.0%
0.0	Activity	9.2
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
TypeScript	Language	C
MIT License	License	GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only

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houston

Posts with mentions or reviews of houston. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-06.

How to Develop Linux Applications (Part 2)
4 projects | dev.to | 6 May 2022

AppCenter Dashboard
How to Develop Linux Applications (Part 1)
2 projects | dev.to | 6 May 2022

Elementary OS Developer Guide
Elementary OS 6 Odin Available Now
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Aug 2021

Would I be correct to say that AppCenter releases are tied to GitHub exclusively[1] or can you use other version control hosts?
[1]: https://github.com/elementary/houston/wiki/Submission-Proces...

flatpak

Posts with mentions or reviews of flatpak. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.

Tools for Linux Distro Hoppers
7 projects | dev.to | 27 Mar 2024

Hopping from one distro to another with a different package manager might require some time to adapt. Using a package manager that can be installed on most distro is one way to help you get to work faster. Flatpak is one of them; other alternative are Snap, Nix or Homebrew. Flatpak is a good starter, and if you have a bunch of free time, I suggest trying Nix.
Podman Desktop 1.6 released: Even more Kubernetes and Containers features
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Dec 2023

No, it looks like you have to do it on an application basis.
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/2913
how strong is the steam (runtime) sandbox for games?
2 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 10 Dec 2023
Flatpak 1.14.5 Released
1 project | /r/linux_gaming | 8 Dec 2023

1 project | /r/Boiling_Steam | 8 Dec 2023
Been thinking of switching to linux but I am a noob
8 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 6 Dec 2023

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FLaNK Stack Weekly for 20 Nov 2023
37 projects | dev.to | 20 Nov 2023
Flathub – The Linux App Store
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Nov 2023

> CLI tools do not implement auto-complete themselves. What you are seeing are auto-complete scripts for your shell that make network connections.
nit: This is incorrect. Robust auto-complete scripts call the actual program to provide completions.
That is what Flatpak does. It is Flatpak itself that makes the network connections.
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/blob/main/completion/flat...
Not that it would make any differencen if it was implemented in Bash seeing as the Bash script is also provided by Flatpak.
How to prevent/allow chrome from accessing network devices?
1 project | /r/flatpak | 22 Sep 2023
Linux Phones (2022)
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Sep 2023

The only performance impact I know of is with the seccomp filter in CPU-bound tasks: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/4187
Skimming through the recent comments, there might be a way to optimize some of it.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing houston and flatpak you can also consider the following projects:

nyxt - Nyxt - the hacker's browser.

steam-runtime - A runtime environment for Steam applications

AppImageKit - Package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, openSUSE, SLED, Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives. Join #AppImage on irc.libera.chat

firejail - Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox

ardour - Mirror of Ardour Source Code

Autodesk-Fusion-360-for-Linux - This is a project, where I give you a way to use Autodesk Fusion 360 on Linux!

org.wireshark.Wireshark

distrobox - Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox

os - The OS build system

nix-gui - Use NixOS Without Coding

penpot - Penpot: The open-source design tool for design and code collaboration

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