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minus-squareSamueru_sama@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-26 hours ago it allows the same packages to run on any Linux kernel (any Linux distro). That is pretty useful. flatpak itself depends on namespaces, so saying that it works on any kernel is quite a stretch. Can flatpak do this? This is a GIMP3 appimage running on ubuntu 10.04 without any container: The kernel is so old that even the appimage runtime itself complains of missing functions and has to fallback to a workaround. UPDATE: flatpak can’t work because bubblewrap itself can’t: PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS is only available since kernel 3.5
minus-squareShayeta@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoJust curious, why are you using a 15 year old version of Ubuntu?
minus-squareSamueru_sama@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 hour agoI’m not, it’s a vm that I use to test. There is quite a lot of systems still stuck on kernel 2.6 that can’t be updated, so it is always nice to make sure what I do can work on such.
flatpak itself depends on namespaces, so saying that it works on any kernel is quite a stretch.
Can flatpak do this? This is a GIMP3 appimage running on ubuntu 10.04 without any container:
The kernel is so old that even the appimage runtime itself complains of missing functions and has to fallback to a workaround.
UPDATE: flatpak can’t work because bubblewrap itself can’t:
PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVSis only available since kernel 3.5Just curious, why are you using a 15 year old version of Ubuntu?
I’m not, it’s a vm that I use to test.
There is quite a lot of systems still stuck on kernel 2.6 that can’t be updated, so it is always nice to make sure what I do can work on such.
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