Solus Goes Flatpak for Better, Reliable Distribution of Third-Party Applications

In an unexpected turn of events, Ikey Doherty, the founder and lead developer of the Solus Project announced a few moments ago that he's adopting the well-known Flatpak application sandboxing and distribution framework for the Solus operating system. Formerly XDG-App, Flatpak an open-source initiative from Red Hat and Fedora Project to allow application developers to more easily distribute their apps across multiple GNU/Linux distributions. Once the Flatpak framework is correctly installed on an operating system, users will be able to install any third-party app with a single click. Solus is a independently-develop operating system for desktops, using its own desktop manager called Budgie, which currently relies on the GNOME Stack. Solus has its own software repositories with up-to-date packages, but it also offers access to some closed-source software projects, such as Google ...