Working with xdg-app application bundles

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6 pointsvezzy-fnord4 comments

This seems to be a very exiting Linux development that was completely off my radar!

And it appears there are attempts to integrate such notions of xdg-app into Fedora Atomic. From the presenter referenced in the article:

https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2015/06/17/testing-rawhide-app...

There's also Firejail http://sourceforge.net/projects/firejail/ and subuser http://subuser.org/ that are worth a look.

This is very cool stuff, thank you!

I currently use sskype for sandboxing Skype, as it is the only non-free app on my system I do not trust. I wanted to transition to sandfox.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Skype#Securing_Skype

I will definitely check out subuser stat. The idea of coding an alternative using LXC or systemd-nspawn and Xpra seems like a super appealing first project I could really get lost in when things slow down for me!

At this point in time i have a hard time telling Fedora/RH, Gnome and Freedesktop apart.

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