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Flatpak is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux. It provides a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in (partial) isolation from the rest of the system.
Flatpak: A containerized/sandboxed packaging format previously known as xdg-app; GNU Guix: Used by the GNU System. It is based on the Nix package manager with Guile Scheme APIs and specializes in providing exclusively free software; Homebrew: a port of the MacOS package manager of the same name (see below), formerly referred to as 'Linuxbrew';
Chrome Web Store: Latest stable version of ChromeOS Linux: Snap Store Flathub: A distribution with Snap package manager or Flatpak installed Web: online: Chromium-based browser such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi or Opera. Can also be installed as a progressive web application.
seccomp (short for secure computing [1]) is a computer security facility in the Linux kernel. seccomp allows a process to make a one-way transition into a "secure" state where it cannot make any system calls except exit(), sigreturn(), read() and write() to already-open file descriptors.
Snap is a software packaging and deployment system developed by Canonical for operating systems that use the Linux kernel and the systemd init system. The packages, called snaps, and the tool for using them, snapd, work across a range of Linux distributions [3] and allow upstream software developers to distribute their applications directly to users.
Although PackageKit is still maintained, no major features have been developed since around 2014, and the package's maintainer suggested that it could be replaced by plugins for other tools, such as Flatpak and Snap as they become more popular. However, a D-Bus interface would still be needed to support managing packages on mutable file systems.
OpenPKG is an open source package management system for Unix.It is based on the well known RPM-system and allows easy and unified installation of packages onto common Unix-platforms (Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD).
pkgsrc (package source) is a package management system for Unix-like operating systems.It was forked from the FreeBSD ports collection in 1997 as the primary package management system for NetBSD.