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) https://youtu.be/_fXr6fCPJ8U Thundermail The Thundermail announcement (https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/04/thundermail-and-thunderbird-pro-services/) 📣Announcements📣 This program was made possible by: * 📺️Youtube (https://youtube.com/linuxuserspace) * 📽️TILvids (https://tilvids.com/a/linuxuserspace) * And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons (https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace) like you 😍 The history of flatpak packages Autopackage (https://web.archive.org/web/20021122061820/http://autopackage.org/) Listaller (https://web.archive.org/web/20120203221057/http://listaller.tenstral.net/) AppStream (https://web.archive.org/web/20130717201957/https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/) The roots (https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2007/08/07/experiments-with-runtime-less-app-bundles/) Klik (https://web.archive.org/web/20050125005333/http://klik.atekon.de/docs/) Rethinking the Linux distribution (https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2011/09/30/rethinking-the-linux-distibution/) Flatpak 4 years in (https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2018/06/20/flatpak-a-history/) Goodbye xdg-app, hello Flatpak (https://flatpak.org/press/2016-06-21-flatpak-released/) Initial Flatpak press release (https://jimmac.github.io/flatpak-org/press/2016-06-21-flatpak-released/) KDE's Discover found its support of Flatpak (https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.10.5-5.11.0/) Firefox begins Flatpak builds (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1441922#c59) OBS begins Flatpak builds too (https://feaneron.com/2022/02/14/obs-studio-27-2-on-flathub-get-it-while-its-hot/) Thunderbird gets official support (https://www.omglinux.com/thunderbird-115-is-now-available-on-flathub/) 📣More Announcements📣 Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, [e-mail] OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy (https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/c/forum) 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 🧹Housekeeping🧹 Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord. * 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy (https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show) * 📰 Linux User Space subreddit (https://linuxuserspace.show/reddit) * ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server (https://linuxuserspace.show/discord) * 📲 Linux User Space Telegram (https://linuxuserspace.show/telegram) * ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix (https://linuxuserspace.show/matrix) * 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch) * 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon (https://linuxuserspace.show/mastodon) * 📜 Linux User Space Twitter (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitter) * 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids (https://linuxuserspace.show/tilvids) * 📱 Linux User Space Bluesky (https://linuxuserspace.show/bluesky) 🔭Next Time🔭 We plan to cover more topics and feedback. Come back in two weeks for more Linux User Space. Watch for our livestream announcements. Stay tuned📡 for announcements of our return and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show. We woul