Episode 5:10: Handle With Care

Coming up in this episode

• The Thunder rolls
• We flatten out the History
• And Package Up Our Experience

0:00 Cold Open
1:34 Thundermail for Everyone!
23:21 The History of Flatpak

• 24:32 From Glick to Bundles
• 29:55 From Bundles to xdg-app
• 30:54 From Flatpak to the Future! 37:44 Are Flatpaks the Best Solution? 1:02:46 Next Time 1:05:14 Stinger

The Video Version
https://youtu.be/_fXr6fCPJ8U

Thundermail

• The Thundermail announcement

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The history of flatpak packages

• Autopackage
• Listaller
• AppStream
• The roots
• Klik
• Rethinking the Linux distribution
• Flatpak 4 years in
• Goodbye xdg-app, hello Flatpak
• Initial Flatpak press release
• KDE's Discover found its support of Flatpak
• Firefox begins Flatpak builds
• OBS begins Flatpak builds too
• Thunderbird gets official support

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Extra Flatpak Resources

• https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/category/glick/
• https://dot.kde.org/2005/09/16/dont-install-just-copy-klik/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20071020104212/https://kdedevelopers.org/node/2920
• https://web.archive.org/web/20050125005333/http://klik.atekon.de/docs/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20101025040336/http://people.gnome.org:80/~alexl/glick/
• https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/page/12/
• https://github.com/alexlarsson/bundler

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