Gradience, Flatseal, Loupe Image Viewer, and Resources running on Ubuntu 16.04

Firefox 118.0.2 running on Ubuntu 16.04

Door Knocker, Collision, and Cartridges running on Ubuntu 16.04

ASHPD Demo running on Ubuntu 16.04, showing a notification through XDG portals

According to Door Knocker, almost half of the portals are unavailable on Ubuntu 16.04, compared to only one unavailable on Fedora 39 with GNOME, which means Flatpaks running here may have more limited capabilities than usual.

  • nicman24
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    411 months ago

    Lol like yeah that is its point and also its weakness

      • nicman24
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        011 months ago

        you are still running 7 year old code with no security updates

          • nicman24
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            111 months ago

            oh nvm i read something in the title wrong. also dont count on fast fixes for the kernel they have repeately lagged or even never arrived in older lts

        • @[email protected]OP
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          711 months ago

          This is a completely patched Ubuntu 16.04 through the Extended Security Maintenance program.

          I would have tried this on Ubuntu 14.04 (supported until 2024) but Flatpak never supported 14.04 in the first place.

          • Semperverus
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            711 months ago

            They are talking about the code sitting inside the flatpak I think. If a developer fails to continue updating the system libraries a flatpak contains, you retain old vulnerabilities you could have otherwise fixed with a sudo apt update && apt upgrade or a sudo pacman -Syu

            • @AProfessional
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              311 months ago

              The runtimes are well maintained and it shows warnings on no longer maintained versions. It’s less of a problem in practice.