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Re: ubuntu/snap future

From riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: ubuntu/snap future
Date 2021-04-09 09:20 +0200
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On 4/7/21, Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> riveravaldez wrote:
>> On Tuesday, April 6, 2021, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
>> > On Tue 06 Apr 2021 at 11:20:58 +0200, Yoann LE BARS wrote:
>> >
>> > I had occasion to install Zoom a few weeks ago;'snap install
>> > zoom-client'.
>> > Everything went smoothly and I quite like having this proprietary
>> > package
>> > strictly confined.
>>
>> Hi, I was under the impression that (besides being fully open) Flatpak
>> had
>> better confinement method that Canonical's Snap, anybody knows if this is
>> correct?
>
>
> "Two years ago I wrote about then heavily-pushed Flatpak,
> self-proclaimed "Future of Apps on Linux". The article
> criticized the following three major flows in Flatpak:
>
>     Most of the apps have full access to the host system but
>         users are misled to believe the apps are sandboxed
>     The flatpak runtimes and apps do not get security updates
>     Flatpak breaks many aspects of desktop integration"
>
>     -- https://flatkill.org/2020/
>
> (the article then says that they fixed some desktop integration
> issues)

Thanks a lot for the link and info, Dan, very informative.

I'm still with the doubt. Even considering all this: which has better
(or less-worse) confinement, Flatpak or Snap (or AppImage)?

Trying to decide which is less-worse in a scenario of unavoidable
use of some of these.

Thanks again!

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ubuntu/snap future George Shuklin <george.shuklin@gmail.com> - 2021-04-03 18:40 +0200
  Re: ubuntu/snap future "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-04-03 19:00 +0200
  Re: ubuntu/snap future Paul Johnson <baloo@ursamundi.org> - 2021-04-06 02:00 +0200
    Re: ubuntu/snap future Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2021-04-06 03:10 +0200
    Re: ubuntu/snap future Yoann LE BARS <yoann@le-bars.net> - 2021-04-06 11:30 +0200
      Re: ubuntu/snap future Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-04-06 13:50 +0200
        Re: ubuntu/snap future Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-04-06 14:30 +0200
        ubuntu/snap future riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com> - 2021-04-07 05:30 +0200
          Re: ubuntu/snap future Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-04-07 12:20 +0200
            Re: ubuntu/snap future riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com> - 2021-04-09 09:20 +0200
              Re: ubuntu/snap future <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-04-09 09:30 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com> - 2021-04-09 11:40 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-04-09 13:00 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-04-09 15:00 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-04-09 15:30 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-04-09 19:50 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-04-09 20:30 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future George Shuklin <george.shuklin@gmail.com> - 2021-04-10 16:10 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com> - 2021-04-29 02:20 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future Yoann LE BARS <yoann@le-bars.net> - 2021-04-09 13:10 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-04-09 13:40 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future Yoann LE BARS <yoann@le-bars.net> - 2021-04-09 13:50 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-04-09 14:50 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-04-09 15:10 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-04-09 15:40 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-04-09 17:10 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-04-09 19:00 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future Yoann LE BARS <yoann@le-bars.net> - 2021-04-09 18:10 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-04-09 19:30 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-04-09 19:30 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-04-09 14:10 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-04-09 15:00 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-04-09 15:30 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future tomas@tuxteam.de - 2021-04-09 15:40 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-04-09 15:50 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-04-09 16:20 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-04-09 16:20 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-04-09 16:30 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-04-09 16:20 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future Yoann LE BARS <yoann@le-bars.net> - 2021-04-09 18:20 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-04-09 19:50 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-04-09 20:40 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2021-04-09 21:40 +0200
                Re: ubuntu/snap future Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-04-09 22:10 +0200
              Re: ubuntu/snap future Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-04-09 14:10 +0200
        Re: ubuntu/snap future George Shuklin <george.shuklin@gmail.com> - 2021-04-10 16:10 +0200

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