https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/8e7da02a-8e3c-4489-8b1c-e495f11a78c1 Flatpak uses unprivileged Linux containers to install and sandbox desktop apps. It resembles traditional packaging systems like dpkg and RPM in some ways, but is very different in other ways. This talk will introduce Flatpak's model for packaging, how and why it differs from traditional packaging systems, and how Linux operating systems can benefit from having both. Traditional packaging systems like dpkg work with small, granular packages with a web of interdependencies. Flatpak is intended for user-facing GUI apps ("leaf packages"), which each have a single dependency: a "runtime" that collects all the libraries that the app needs and doesn't bundle. Key topics: The problems Flatpak sets out to solve: why traditional packages aren't always a good fit, How Flatpak mitigates the problems associated with bundled libraries, Avoiding data duplication and wasted space, This talk is intended for an audience of developers and sysadmins familiar with traditional packaging systems, but perhaps not the details of Flatpak. The same speaker will be giving a follow-up talk on Flatpak's relationship to distributions, in the Distributions devroom on Sunday. Speaker: Simon McVittie, Track: Package Management, Room: K.3.201, When: Saturday 3 February 2018, 12:30–13:00 (Brussels time), Schedule: FOSDEM 2018 event page, Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium (CC BY 2.0 BE) (as stated in the FOSDEM video archive). Attribution: “Introduction to Flatpak” by Simon McVittie, FOSDEM 2018. Original recording: 2018/K.3.201/flatpak.webm from the FOSDEM video archive. This channel is an unofficial mirror; FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community. Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:56:05 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.watch https://peertube.watch/lazy-static/avatars/3b284627-b75f-409e-ac2e-10f4c2946f43.png https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/8e7da02a-8e3c-4489-8b1c-e495f11a78c1 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.watch/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.