Flatpak and Fedora
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Flatpak
Flatpak provides a simple and user-friendly way to run, update and create self-contained desktop applications.
It is possible to run proprietary, big and bloated software like Skype or Spotify on a lightning fast and sleek musl based Void Linux system.
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Void Linux now has Flatpak support included
The Void Linux distribution has recently merged-in support for Flatpak, the new packaging format for Linux.
If you haven't heard of Void Linux, don't fret, there's a lot of distributions and it's quite a task keeping tabs on all of them. Void is another rolling-release distribution, so you don't need to do a big upgrade every few months, it just continually updates.
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New Fedora 25 Live ISOs Include Linux Kernel 4.10.10, Security Patches, Updates
Ben Williams from the Fedora Respins-SIG project, an initiative to produce regular Live ISO snapshots of the current stable Fedora Linux release, announced the availability of a new set of updated Fedora 25 ISOs.
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Java 9 Tech Preview Planned For Fedora 27
Fedora developers are planning to be prompt in offering Java 9 on their Linux distribution via OpenJDK.
Java 9 / OpenJDK 9 is planned for release this summer -- at the end of July to be exact. Therefore, Fedora developers are planning to get Java 9 into their release due out in H2'2017, Fedora 27.
But due to new APIs of Java 9, this updated in OpenJDK in Fedora 27 will just be offered as a technology preview. OpenJDK 8 will continue to be the default in Fedora until at least F28.
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