The History of Flatpak

The history of Flatpak goes WAY back to 2002! A whole lot older than we dared to guess, but it turns out installing software in an easy way is a problem we've been trying to solve for a while in Linux.

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🧐The history of flatpak packages📦
Autopackage
https://web.archive.org/web/200211220...
Listaller
https://web.archive.org/web/201202032...
AppStream
https://web.archive.org/web/201307172...
The roots
https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2007/08...
Klik
https://web.archive.org/web/200501250...
Rethinking the Linux distribution
https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2011/09...
Flatpak 4 years in
https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2018/06...
Goodbye xdg-app, hello Flatpak
https://flatpak.org/press/2016-06-21-...
Initial Flatpak press release
https://jimmac.github.io/flatpak-org/...
KDE's Discover found its support of Flatpak
https://kde.org/announcements/changel...
Firefox begins Flatpak builds
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug...
OBS begins Flatpak builds too
https://feaneron.com/2022/02/14/obs-s...
Thunderbird gets official support
https://www.omglinux.com/thunderbird-...

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