redd@discuss.tchncs.de to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agoThe Flaws of Flatpak - What do you think about Flatpak Security?youtu.bevideomessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up172arrow-down124file-text
arrow-up148arrow-down1videoThe Flaws of Flatpak - What do you think about Flatpak Security?youtu.beredd@discuss.tchncs.de to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square51fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresuprjami@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months 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-squareredd@discuss.tchncs.deOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoCan the Fedora Flatpaks be browsed and downloaded for other distros?
minus-squaresuprjami@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months 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-squareAProfessional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months 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.