@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year agoThe Flaws of Flatpak - What do you think about Flatpak Security?youtu.beexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up166arrow-down124file-text
arrow-up142arrow-down1external-linkThe Flaws of Flatpak - What do you think about Flatpak Security?youtu.be@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year agomessage-square49fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year ago 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-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilink1•1 year agoCan the Fedora Flatpaks be browsed and downloaded for other distros?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoYes. 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-square@AProfessionallinkEnglish1•1 year agoAll 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.