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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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Building a standalone Haskell binary with alpine-linux and stack.
https://openbuildservice.org/ is one way to produce distribution packages across a wide selection of distributions, if your source code is open.
- RedHat donates $10,000 to OBS Studio, their Flatpak to be official for Linux!
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Manjaro's new website that integrates with pamac to provide a web based interface to install software. Supports repositories' packages, flatpaks and snaps
As fair as I understand, OBS is indeed a suitable replacement for AUR right now.
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The Future of Snapcraft | Ubuntu
OpenBuildService is better in every way, is fully opensource everywhere and can even generate packages for ubuntu better than launchpad appears to, and can even build entire distros. No special integrations are necessary, it can cost-effectively work with a highly paralellized number of virtual machines (iinm 100 or more on generic threadripper or epyc).
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Why is it so difficult for a software application team to support so many distributions via packaging? Is there no machinery to robotically package any application for any of the given major distributions? Why not?
Suse's OBS is another option, and there are likely others...
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How to deploy my FOSS to Linux users / repositories?
[3] https://openbuildservice.org/
- Haha amirite?
- Introducing MPR: the AUR for Debian and Ubuntu based systems
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Linux on the Desktop: Part Two
Good idea, give it a try. I'd recommend Kubuntu or Mint with Cinnamon. I switched to KDE for KDE Connects' amazing smartphone (Android) integration, which i recommend srrongly to try. Switched to openSUSE Tumbleweed myself, best KDE implemention IMHO, rolling release and the software selection is great, whats missing from the repos can be installed via opi, a client for [0]. It is not that newbie friendly though, since SUSEs' focus is on the enterprise ie safety over ease of use.
[0] https://openbuildservice.org/
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I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
Try it on openSUSE, the best KDE integration by far IMHO, since it is their standard DE since IDK/forever? Tumbleweed offers the newest packages, rolling like Arch, but with a huge test battery on OBS (https://openbuildservice.org/). Snapshots on upgrade make the thought of breakage (haven't had any) tolerable.
Disclaimer: very happy user
flathub
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XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis
> Nobody ever even audits the binary contents of flatpaks on flathub (were they actually built from the source? the author attests so!).
IME/IIRC There aren't (or shouldn't be) any binary contents on Flathub that are submitted by the author, at least for projects with source available? You're supposed to submit a short, plain-text recipe instead, which then gets automatically built from source outside the control of the author.
> The Flathub service then uses the manifest from your repository to continuously build and distribute your application on every commit.
https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/submission/#ho...
Usually the recipes should just list the appropriate URLs to get the source code, or, for proprietary applications, the official .DEBs. Kinda like AUR, but JSON/YAML. Easy to audit if you want:
https://github.com/orgs/flathub/repositories
- FOSS software is probably less likely to abuse this, but it just depends how ruthless the publisher is, a lot of people desire to be successful and it's human nature to look for advantages to put yourself above others in competitive environments.
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Flathub – The Linux App Store
I also don't believe third parties maintainers packaging software on flathub is a big issue but I'm also not familiar with how other distro repos trust their maintainers. Hopefully more developers maintain their flatpak themselves (or someone they trust) and get their apps verified. If most apps are verified, warning users of unverified apps might be a good idea.
There's ongoing discussion about splitting open source and proprietary apps in to seperate repos [1]. Additionally having seperate repos for verified and unverified apps might make it more obvious where an app comes from in the cli.
But I don't know how seamlessly an app could transition between being in the third party repo and being in the official repo. Having the user quietly stop receiving updates seems like a bad idea, but automatically migrating might not be desirable either.
I also think flatpaks cli interface needs some work. It is functional but far from distro package managers.
Being verified is especially important for critical apps. Recently someone added malicious versions of apps to the snap store [3]. This lead to people getting their cryptocurrency stolen.
[1] https://github.com/flathub/flathub/issues/691
[2] https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/requirements
[3] https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/temporary-suspension-of-automat...
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Bforartists Flatpak, coming soon to Flathub
That means Linux users can now install Bforartists on any Linux distro easily, regardless of glibc version! https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/4295
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Turtle 0.3 released (formerly TurtleGit)
Still having some problems with the flathub build, see https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/4082 for the current status.
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TurtleGit released, a git frontend for GNOME and Nautilus
Here is the flathub draft pull request: https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/4082
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The first tip to give to any new Linux user should be "do NOT search for, download, and install software on the Web!"
i assume you dont know how flathub works , theirs little or no QC , done flathub is just get told theirs an update for the package , if yo go look at the github repo pes https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/4164 for example , only updates the link to the girt repo , theirs 0 code checked
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Who is behind flathub and rpmfusion really?
It all should be written in pages for contributors, read the docs for fusion, and the docs for flathub.
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Flathub just hit 1 billion total downloads
These are criticisms of the flatpak ecosystem as it stands today. Currently, the Firefox ESR package on flathub seems to be caught in limbo or maybe dead. Mozilla publishes both a snap and a flatpak of Firefox latest, but only a snap of the ESR version. This raises the question of why. Have Mozilla chosen to invest more in snaps than in flatpaks? If so, what's their reasoning? (More users on snaps, making it similar to why they put more investment into Windows than Linux? Something else?) If they haven't invested more into snaps than flatpaks, is this a sign that it's harder to maintain flatpaks (or at least on flathub) than snaps? If that's true, I would hope that flatpak/flathub would be soliciting feedback from Mozilla about it.
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VirtualBox as Flatpak
Because that may be very hard to sandbox: https://github.com/flathub/flathub/issues/3366
What are some alternatives?
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Ryujinx - Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
azure-cli - Azure Command-Line Interface
bubblewrap - Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects
egpu-switcher - 🖥🐧 Setup script for eGPUs in Linux (X.Org)
flatpak - Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
archinstall - Arch Linux installer - guided, templates etc.
openbsd-wip - OpenBSD work in progress ports
gentoo-on-rpi-64bit - Bootable 64-bit Gentoo image for the Raspberry Pi4B, 3B & 3B+, with Linux 5.4, OpenRC, Xfce4, VC4/V3D, camera and h/w codec support, weekly-autobuild binhost
steam-runtime - A runtime environment for Steam applications