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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]
Snap is a software packaging and deployment system developed by Canonical for operating systems that use the Linux kernel and the systemd init system. The packages, called snaps, and the tool for using them, snapd, work across a range of Linux distributions [3] and allow upstream software developers to distribute their applications directly to users.
Pacman: Used in Arch Linux, Frugalware and DeLi Linux. Its binary package format is a compressed tar archive (default file extension: .pkg.tar.zst) built using the makepkg utility (which comes bundled with pacman) and a specialized type of shell script called a PKGBUILD; PETget: Used by Puppy Linux;
Arch Linux (/ ɑːr tʃ /) [7] [8] [g] is an open source, rolling release Linux distribution. Arch Linux is kept up-to-date by regularly updating the individual pieces of software that it comprises. [9] Arch Linux is intentionally minimal, and is meant to be configured by the user during installation so they may add only what they require. [10]
AppStream is an agreement between major Linux vendors (i.e. Red Hat, Canonical, SUSE, Debian, Mandriva, etc.) to create an infrastructure for application installers on Linux and sharing of metadata. [2] The initiative was started as early as 19-21 January, 2011. [3]
Garuda Linux is a Arch Linux-based, Linux distribution targeted towards gaming. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It offers multiple desktop environments , but the KDE Plasma version is the default. [ 4 ] The term Garuda , originating from Hinduism and Buddhism , is defined as a divine eagle-like sun bird and the king of birds.
For distributions based on .deb and .rpm files as well as Slackware Linux, there is CheckInstall, and for recipe-based systems such as Gentoo Linux and hybrid systems such as Arch Linux, it is possible to write a recipe first, which then ensures that the package fits into the local package database.
In 2007, Klik was the inspiration for Alexander Larsson's glick project, the precursor of Flatpak. [14] In 2015, Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, said that "[t]his is just very cool. I finally got around to play with the 'AppImage' version of Subsurface, and it really does seem to 'just work'."