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It is my understanding that that's what Flatpak is trying to do: "One of Flatpak’s main goals is to increase the security of desktop systems by isolating applications from one another. [...] Limited syscalls. For instance, apps can’t use nonstandard network socket types or ptrace other processes. " [0]

But as my other comment mentions [1], I wish I had the knowledge required to understand the meaning / implications of Flatpak apps. Please let me know if I'm misunderstanding :)

Happy Saturday night y'all !

[0] http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/working-with-the-sandbox.h... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16351192




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