LibreOffice Is Now One Of The First Major Linux Desktop Apps With A Flatpak

[RahulSundaram]

Apparmor profiles distributed in packages are effective sandboxing.
You can argue semantics but either is a path to isolation.

Sure but Apparmor is distro specific.

[zanny]

Distro package managers have no sandboxing and they are distro specific.

Apparmor profiles distributed in packages are effective sandboxing. At least, they almost are, they only restrict file access when they should be restricting more generally discrete device access (which would include network, input, cameras, etc).

Apparmor at least to my knowledge does have network permissions. Of course, it is an alternative avenue to the goal from what something like Docker does - in one direction you take the free for all permissions of Unix and try to restrict them more, in the other you isolate everything and add back in access.

You can argue semantics but either is a path to isolation.

[RahulSundaram]

Is it possible to run flatpack apps inside flatpack sandboxed apps? Steam could use something like docker also.

flatpak has runtime and apps sep for this purpose.

[RahulSundaram]

Does it have 1 or 2 pms? Now that i think about it you need two. One for the sandboxed apps and one that manages system tools and libraries. Otherwise htop for example would not work sandboxed.

It would work fine with the appropriate access control. sys call filtering etc. sandboxing is a optional feature.

[cj.wijtmans]

Is it possible to run flatpack apps inside flatpack sandboxed apps? Steam could use something like docker also.

[cj.wijtmans]

not directly flatpak, but rancherOS is a pid 1 docker, where ALL apps run inside docker containers, so each app can be isolated from the next one.

My main issue with flatpak is coming from gnome devs... i don't trust then, as i don't trust systemd, pulseaudio devs... Everytime i see something coming from oracle, redhat, apple or microsoft, i step back and try to see the bigger picture... not that everything they do is bad, but they fucked up the final user several times already to improve their business, so i don't trust then

Does it have 1 or 2 pms? Now that i think about it you need two. One for the sandboxed apps and one that manages system tools and libraries. Otherwise htop for example would not work sandboxed.

[RahulSundaram]

not directly flatpak, but rancherOS is a pid 1 docker, where ALL apps run inside docker containers, so each app can be isolated from the next one.

My main issue with flatpak is coming from gnome devs... i don't trust then, as i don't trust systemd, pulseaudio devs... Everytime i see something coming from oracle, redhat, apple or microsoft, i step back and try to see the bigger picture... not that everything they do is bad, but they fucked up the final user several times already to improve their business, so i don't trust then

How are running the Linux kernel then? It is driven primarily by commercial organizations these days.

[RahulSundaram]

They both sandbox apps.

Many many different operating systems have sandboxing. It isn't something android specific and flatpak sandboxing doesn't work like android at all.

[higuita]

why not make flatpackOS while you are at it?

not directly flatpak, but rancherOS is a pid 1 docker, where ALL apps run inside docker containers, so each app can be isolated from the next one.

My main issue with flatpak is coming from gnome devs... i don't trust then, as i don't trust systemd, pulseaudio devs... Everytime i see something coming from oracle, redhat, apple or microsoft, i step back and try to see the bigger picture... not that everything they do is bad, but they fucked up the final user several times already to improve their business, so i don't trust then

[cj.wijtmans]

You are confused about the goals here. Flatpak has nothing to do with android.

They both sandbox apps.