Having used Snaps on Ubuntu - which seems to be their preferred method of distributing some applications, I have a slightly different take on the containerisation angle and would de-emphaise that.
My take is that snaps/flatpak attack the "my distro ships with gcc version 4.1 but I need gcc version 8.0" By that I mean that you replace the distro shipped gcc version at your peril - as far as I am concerned tiknering with the tested/approved gcc and glibc will end you in a world of hurt. (old war story - changing bash to an upgraded version left a big SuSE system unbootable for me). So with snaps/flatpak you should be able to give your users and developers up to date applications without fooling with the core system utilities. And this is a Good Thing (TM) On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 06:47, Chris Samuel <ch...@csamuel.org> wrote: > On 22/7/19 10:40 pm, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > > > So in a nut shell this is taking dockerization/ containerization and > > making it more for the every day Linux user instead of the HPC user? > > I don't think this goes as far as containers with isolation, as I think > that's not what they're trying to do. But it does seem they're thinking > along those lines. > > > It would be interesting to have a distro built around such a setup. > > I think this is targeting cross-distro applications. With all the > duplication of libraries, etc, a distro using it would be quite bulky. > > Also may you have a similar security as containers have, whereby when a > vulnerability is found and patched in an application or library you end > up with lots of people out there still running the vulnerable version. > > This is why distros tend to discourage "vendoring" of libraries as that > tends to fossilise vulnerabilities into an application whereas if people > use the version provided in the distro the maintainers only need to fix > it in that one package and everyone who links against it benefits. > > All the best, > Chris > -- > Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Berkeley, CA, USA > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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