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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. [5] [6] Flatpak was known as xdg-app until 2016. [7]
For example, in GoboLinux a recipe file contains information on how to download, unpack, compile and install a package using its Compile tool. In both cases, the user must provide the computing power and time needed to compile the app, and is legally responsible for the consequences of compiling the package.
An early package manager was SMIT (and its backend installp) from IBM AIX. SMIT was introduced with AIX 3.0 in 1989. [citation needed]Early package managers, from around 1994, had no automatic dependency resolution [3] but could already drastically simplify the process of adding and removing software from a running system.
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The final version was released on 11 April 2015, after a countdown clock appeared on the website eight days earlier. [38] [39] Freya was downloaded 1.2 million times. In line with Elementary's intent to expand the reach of open source software, 73 percent of Freya downloads were from closed source operating systems. [26]
systemd not only uses cgroups, but also augments them with systemd-nspawn and machinectl, two utility programs that facilitate the creation and management of Linux containers. [45] Since version 205, systemd also offers ControlGroupInterface, which is an API to the Linux kernel cgroups. [ 46 ]
In January 2014, GameSpot compared the performance of three games (Dota 2, Left 4 Dead 2, and Metro: Last Light) running on Windows 7 x64 and SteamOS 1.0 beta. With an AMD graphics card, they found that all ran at considerably fewer frames per second on SteamOS, and Left 4 Dead 2 stuttered, which they attributed to a device driver problem.
A few days before the official release of Ubuntu 12.04 a new development branch, 0.9.8, was created [24] in preparation for Ubuntu 12.10. [25] For Compiz version 0.9.8 development has moved to a new Launchpad page. [26] In November 2012, Spilsbury announced that he had left Canonical [27] and stated he had no plans to port Compiz to Wayland. A ...