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

Solus is adopting flatpak to offer users quick access to third party apps

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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