Re: ubuntu/snap future

[riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com>]

On 4/7/21, Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
>> riveravaldez wrote:
>>
>> 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)

Hi, just in case anyone is interested in the following of this, I've
asked at Flatpak's mail-list about the issues mentioned in that
article and someone from GNOME pointed me to this post[0],
which I still didn't read. So, at the moment, just reporting. ;)

Best regards.

[0] https://ramcq.net/2018/10/15/flatpak-sandbox-security/