IBM/Red Hat: Rocky Linux, Irving Wladawsky-Berger on Free/Libre Digital Wallets, and Flatpak in EasyOS
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Antivirus for Rocky Linux? Yes!
Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to install two antivirus for Rocky Linux. Is it necessary? Probably not, but it is always better to be forewarned. Rocky Linux 9 and all other Linux distributions are quite secure, but there are many malicious attackers out there who want to breach our systems.
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Irving Wladawsky-Berger: Fostering the Development of Interoperable, Open Source Digital Wallets
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Flatpak does not work with ext4 folder encryption
EasyOS uses ext4 encrypted folders. This includes the '.session' and the 'files' folder. I have been fighting with the Flatpak sandbox, but have given up; it just won't work properly with ext4 encryption.
The Flatpak app runs as its own user, just like AppImages, with home folder /home/
. This is in the '.session' folder, hence encrypted -- well, encrypted if you entered a password at first bootup.
The change that I have made, just for Flatpaks, is /home/
is now a symlink to an unencrypted folder in the working-partition. No encryption, also all read and write operations are direct to the working-partition, outside the current session.
From the user point of view, it is pretty straightforward, nothing complicated to think about. Just use the "Flapi" Flatpak Installer, and it is easy. You end up with a menu entry and optionally an icon on the desktop, and off you go.