Robert McQueen

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Cambridge-based husband, father, free software & green energy geek, digital rights & equity advocate, open source technologist, CEO of Endless Access, Vice President of GNOME
Bloghttps://ramcq.net
My brother and his fiancé are a two-person game studio - they have published the demo for their new indie game, Monk Took Book on Indie Game Hub and it's on Steam for Women's Day sale. Check out the video at https://youtu.be/DQZsA2pevWg?si=gF5ERyVKWdPx6wAE and the demo on Steam at https://store.steampowered.com/app/4255310/Monk_Took_Book_Demo/
Monk Took Book - Official Demo Trailer

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@jorge @ramcq

Cool presentation, thanks for sharing!

EndlessOS is still the operating system I install for users new to Linux or new to computing in general. On my own computer, I use Fedora Silverblue. But with this move to a GnomeOS base in EndlessOS 7, I'm now contemplating moving myself to EndlessOS too! After 15 years with Fedora. Exciting stuff!

#EndlessOS7 #EndlessOS #GnomeOS

Totally agree with @ramcq ... endless was the one to push everyone by shipping ostree in production years before everyone else.

https://youtu.be/Q0BPH6aaAXw?si=h61vTdAQP6KlunWZ&t=2458

Building Endless OS 7 with GNOME and BuildStream | Endless Access & Codethink

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@jorge @jnsgruk Flatpak isn't far off being able to run OCI apps; and portals are a lot of the API. I think the missing link is metadata to describe permissions and exports in a common language. Then you could squint/drink your way to having Snap and Flatpak offering alternative runtimes to apps expressed in a common OCI Desktop format?
@TheEvilSkeleton
I think the credit argument is maybe a bit of a stretch. Maybe as a courtesy, but not an open and shut legal or principled argument. I don't think a lot of build manifests pass the threshold of being meaningfully copyrightable. Most Flatpak manifests on Flathub also don't have licenses or copyright attributions so it's not like the contributors are signalling this requirement. Maybe a bit of a miss from Flathub not having some clearer/default terms. On the todo list I guess!
@TheEvilSkeleton I agree with most of this - about the sheer futility and user (and upstream) hostility of this exercise - unless there is a clearly-articulated business / technical reason. I actually thought mcatanzaro's take was pretty good - ie the default shipped Flatpaks that go with RHEL (or whatever) should be made by them, otherwise don't bother. I can see the logic for this, if "we built it we know where it all came from" etc is what the customer is buying.

I was admittedly bearish about Bazaar early on; I was confused by the design that was trying to reinvent a lot of things, plus I didn’t know how I felt about diverging efforts from GNOME Software.

Now that the Bazaar team has decide to clone the Flathub web UI whenever it makes sense (and improve on it in cool ways!), I’ll admit it: it’s pretty rad.

Huge props to the designers and developers making Bazaar. It’s the Flathub app store @tbernard always wanted.

#Flathub #Flatpak #Linux #GNOME

News for developers! As a result of some awesome cross-project collaboration, Flathub now has improved tooling to make license compliance easier for you.

tl;dr app developers, ensure you’re using up-to-date runtimes and verify that licenses and copyright notices are properly included; distros, ensure your OS images have been built with updated runtimes from Flathub.

https://docs.flathub.org/blog/enhanced-license-compliance-tools

#Flathub #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS

Enhanced License Compliance Tools for Flathub | Flathub Documentation

tl;dr: Flathub has improved tooling to make license compliance easier for developers. Distros should rebuild OS images with updated runtimes from Flathub; app developers should ensure they're using up-to-date runtimes and verify that licenses and copyright notices are properly included.

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