redd@discuss.tchncs.de to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 年前The Flaws of Flatpak - What do you think about Flatpak Security?youtu.beexternal-linkmessage-square51linkfedilinkarrow-up174arrow-down124file-text
arrow-up150arrow-down1external-linkThe Flaws of Flatpak - What do you think about Flatpak Security?youtu.beredd@discuss.tchncs.de to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 年前message-square51linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresuprjamilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 年前 Every Flatpak vendor So who’s that? Flathub and Fedora, the latter of who automate the Flatpak builds from distro packages anyway. If you’re using a smaller distro which is not backed by a huge security team then this is probably an advantage of using Flatpak, not a negative.
minus-squareredd@discuss.tchncs.deOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 年前Can the Fedora Flatpaks be browsed and downloaded for other distros?
minus-squaresuprjamilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 年前Yes. All Flatpak apps can be used on any distro. I’m using the Fedora Flatpak Firefox on Debian, because Fedora’s Flatpak runtime supports Kerberos authentication, the Flathub runtime doesn’t.
minus-squareAProfessional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 年前All Flatpaks are portable. There is no reason to use their repo usually though as Flathub often has more up to date, featureful, or upstream maintained versions instead.
So who’s that? Flathub and Fedora, the latter of who automate the Flatpak builds from distro packages anyway.
If you’re using a smaller distro which is not backed by a huge security team then this is probably an advantage of using Flatpak, not a negative.
Can the Fedora Flatpaks be browsed and downloaded for other distros?
Yes. All Flatpak apps can be used on any distro.
I’m using the Fedora Flatpak Firefox on Debian, because Fedora’s Flatpak runtime supports Kerberos authentication, the Flathub runtime doesn’t.
All Flatpaks are portable. There is no reason to use their repo usually though as Flathub often has more up to date, featureful, or upstream maintained versions instead.