Flathub’s Got Big Plans for 2023 (UPDATED)

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Mar 07, 2023,
updated Mar 09, 2023

Endless CEO and GNOME board president Rob McQueen has shared a new blog post to bring the Linux community bang up-to-date on the effort going on behind the scenes to get Flathub here, and what will be required to get Flathub to where it wants to go next.

And (to be a party pooper and spoil that post) the key aims for this year are...

Read on

UPDATE

More in original:

• Robert McQueen: Flathub in 2023

  It’s been quite a few months since the most recent updates about Flathub last year. We’ve been busy behind the scenes, so I’d like to share what we’ve been up to at Flathub and why—and what’s coming up from us this year.

How-To Geek:

• Flathub Wants to Be the Ultimate Linux App Store

  There are many ways to install software on Linux PCs, but the Flathub app repository is one of the most popular methods. Flathub is now aiming to become the best possible app store across all Linux distributions and setups with a new roadmap for 2023.

  Flathub is a repository for software packaged in the Flatpak format, a container format that works on Ubuntu, Fedora, Pop!_OS, Elementary OS, Debian, Arch, and many other Linux distributions. It’s even possible to run Flatpak software on the Windows Subsystem for Linux or Linux container in Chrome OS. Thanks to Flatpak and Flathub, it’s possible for developers to create apps and games for Linux that work well across many different Linux-based platforms (even the Windows Subsystem for Linux). Flathub says it currently offers 2,000 apps from over 1,500 collaborators, with around 700,000 app downloads each day.

LWN:

• McQueen: Flathub in 2023 [LWN.net]

  The Flathub organization (in the form of Robert McQueen) has posted a lengthy update on the state of Flathub and its plans for the coming year.

By Liam Dawe:

• Flathub in 2023, they have some big plans

  Robert McQueen, CEO of the Endless OS Foundation and GNOME Board President, has given a big update on what's going on with Flathub. A lot of work has been going in towards updating Flathub from a list of apps, into a full build service and app store complete with payment processing. This includes developer verification, user accounts and more.

Linux Magazine:

• Flathub Vying to Become the Standard Linux App Store

  Linux has a plethora of package managers and app stores. There's apt, dnf, yum, zypper, pacman, GNOME Software, Discover, and Synaptic.

  For modern Linux distributions, however, you can also add Snap and Flatpak into the mix. Those last two have, for some time, struggled to gain much traction. However, over the past couple of years, those universal package managers have finally gained considerable popularity.

  But only one of those tools is vying to become the de facto standard app store for Linux.