Sovereign Tech Agency Invests €500k in Flatpak

https://modal.cx/blog/announcing-flatpak-sta/

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unskilled5117@feddit.org · 9 pts · 4d

Great news!

artyom@piefed.social · -12 pts · 4d (11 replies)

who is Flatpak?

unskilled5117@feddit.org · 22 pts · 4d (8 replies)

Third sentence:

Flatpak serves as the primary application distribution method for image-based operating systems including Fedora Silverblue, openSUSE Aeon, SteamOS, and GNOME OS. It is the preferred format for major ecosystems such as GNOME, KDE, and elementary.

artyom@piefed.social · -7 pts · 4d (7 replies)

How do you invest in a "package distribution method"?

gingernate@sopuli.xyz · 25 pts · 4d (3 replies)

By giving them money?

artyom@piefed.social · -6 pts · 3d (2 replies)

Who

WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2d

Flatpak

Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -1 pts · 2d

What

devfuuu@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 4d

Recruiting people, allocating resources like dedicated developers for a few months, putting money in infrastructure like CI and hosting resources, have programs in place to reward security issues and disclosures, etc.

There's a lot of places to use and invest money in open source.

lokalhorst@feddit.org · 8 pts · 3d (1 reply)

Well they don't grow on trees, do they?

UninterestingVoid@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 3d

It would be crazy if packaging methods grew on trees lol. But a tree is technically also an investment anyway.

NotSteve_@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 4d (1 reply)

You don't know the infamous hacker packaging method named Flatpak?

artyom@piefed.social · 3 pts · 4d

no 😕

psycotica0@lemmy.ca · -17 pts · 4d (13 replies)

Investment is nice... but what are they actually investing in? Flatpak kinda works already. What are they planning on spending 500k on?

non_burglar@lemmy.world · 82 pts · 3d (10 replies)

These articles are meant to be read, that's the premise of posting them.

Flatpak is a mature project and the best option that exists on GNU/Linux today, but its security and sandboxing features still trail behind those of well-funded proprietary platforms such as Android and iOS.

psycotica0@lemmy.ca · 38 pts · 3d (1 reply)

You know what, fair, that's my bad.

pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 3d

Most of the time I don't even read the article so my bad too

Zarobi@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 3d (7 replies)

the best option

Big asterisk but ok

harsh3466@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 3d (3 replies)

Would you rather snaps?

Zarobi@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 3d (1 reply)

No, I'd rather install an APT package like God intended

cybernihongo@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 3d

I uninstalled all of flatpak and never looked back. I love wasting gigabytes on duplicate dependencies just to run the two flatpak apps.

Routhinator@startrek.website · 1 pts · 3d

Dear lord no.

non_burglar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3d (2 replies)

That was part of the quote from the article, so I'm not sure why you're responding to me about it.

Zarobi@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 3d (1 reply)

I'm just replying in regard to your comment's quoted section of the article, so I'm not sure why you're responding to me about it

rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d

I'm not sure what I'm replying in regards to. I think I just wanted to be part of this.

unskilled5117@feddit.org · 17 pts · 3d

I mean you could read the linked blog post where they explain it

Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 3d

It's for security sandboxing features