When I first switched to Linux, I had to wait six months for new Linux apps and updates. This was a buzzkill—but thanks to the Flatpak format and Flathub, the app store on my desktop has become a ...

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Flatpak apps are gaining serious popularity on Linux distributions but managing the permissions of those apps can be a challenge. But with this handy GUI tool, those permissions are simple to deal ...

Flatpak development has been very quiet for years. Discussions about a next-generation take are happening – and some of the ...

Once upon a time, GNOME and KDE got along like cats and dogs. That was then. This is now. At Linux Application Summit (LAS) in Barcelona, the two, along with other desktop developers, came together to ...

There are hundreds of Linux distributions to choose from, and while there are some similarities (they all use some version of the Linux kernel and most support a variety of popular desktop ...

Linux developers are going to have more than one choice for building secure, cross-distribution applications. Ubuntu’s “snap” applications recently went cross-platform, having been ported to other ...

Linux needs both snap and flatpak to succeed. Find out why Jack Wallen believes this is true. The internet is a fickle beast. Just when you think a company or community of developers have come out ...

Now it really is about personal choice and not feature choice ...

The Flatpak framework for distributing Linux desktop applications is now in prodaction release, after three years of beta status. The framework, originally called XDG-app, is intended to make Linux ...