Solus Goes Flatpak for Better, Reliable Distribution of Third-Party Applications

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In an unexpected turn of events, Ikey Doherty, the founder and lead developer of the Solus Project has just announced that he’s adopting the well-known Flatpak application sandboxing and distribution framework for the Solus operating system.

Formerly XDG-App, Flatpak is an open-source initiative from Red Hat and Fedora Project to allow application developers to more easily distribute their apps across multiple GNU/Linux distributions. Once the Flatpak framework is correctly installed on an operating system, users will be able to install any third-party app with a single click.

Solus is an independently-developed operating system for desktops, using its own desktop manager called Budgie, which currently relies on the GNOME Stac… (read more)
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