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Not to be confused with Flatpack.
Flatpak
Developer(s)Alex Larsson, Flatpak Team
Initial releaseDecember 2014; 10 years ago (2014-12)[1]
Stable release
1.00.0 / 20 August 2018; 6 years ago (2018-08-20)
Repository
Written inC
Operating systemLinux
TypeApplication virtualization
LicenseLGPL[2]
Websiteflatpak.org

Flatpak (formerly xdg-app) is a software utility for software deployment, package management, and application virtualization for Linux desktop computers. It provides a sandbox environment in which users can run applications in isolation from the rest of the system.[3][4] Applications using Flatpak need permission from the user to control hardware devices or access the user's files.[5]

The idea of using application containers in GNOME was first proposed in 2013 by Lennart Poettering,[4] who published an article about it in 2014.[6][7] Developed as part of the freedesktop.org project (formerly known as X Desktop Group or XDG),[8] it was originally called xdg-app.[9]

As of February 2017, some popular apps available as Flatpaks include Blender, Gimp,[10] LibreOffice,[11] Pitivi,[12] KDE Applications,[13] Linphone,[14] and GNOME Recipes.[15] There are also some unofficial Flatpaks such as development versions of Mozilla Firefox,[16] Skype,[17] and Spotify.[18]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Flatpak's History". GitHub.
  2. ^ "LGPL". xdg-app repository. freedesktop.org. Retrieved 2016-11-21. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |website= (help)
  3. ^ Larsson, Alexander (29 April 2016). "Using bubblewrap in xdg-app". Alexander Larsson: Cool links and commentary. GNOME. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
  4. ^ a b Willis, Nathan (2015-01-21). "GNOME and application sandboxing revisited". LWN. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  5. ^ Willis, Nathan (2015-08-12). "Working with xdg-app application bundles". LWN. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  6. ^ corbet (1 September 2014). "Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems". LWN. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  7. ^ Poettering, Lennart (1 September 2014). "Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems". Pid Eins.
  8. ^ "Flatpak - the future of application distribution". Retrieved 2016-12-16.
  9. ^ Larsson, Alexander (9 May 2016). "Renamed to flatpak in git". freedesktop.org. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  10. ^ "GIMP - Downloads". www.gimp.org.
  11. ^ "LibreOffice in Flatpak format". LibreOffice. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  12. ^ "Pitivi-download". Pitivi. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  13. ^ "kde-applications". KDE Flatpak. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  14. ^ Linphone, retrieved 2017-09-19
  15. ^ Sneddon, Joey (2016-12-07). "Yum! GNOME Recipes is a New Cooking App for Linux". OMG! Ubuntu!. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  16. ^ "Unofficial Firefox Developer Edition flatpak repository". Unofficial Firefox Developer Edition flatpak repository. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
  17. ^ "Alexander Larsson's github Flatpak build of skype". Alexander Larsson's github Flatpak build of skype. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  18. ^ "Alexander Larsson's github Flatpak build of spotify". Alexander Larsson's github Flatpak build of spotify. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
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