Announcing Flatpak

Not to be left behind by a certain competing project, the developers of theFlatpak packaging system have put out a pressrelease proclaiming its virtues. "The Linux desktop has longbeen held back by platform fragmentation. This has been a burden ondevelopers, and creates a high barrier to entry for third party applicationdevelopers. Flatpak aims to change all that. From the very start itsprimary goal has been to allow the same application to run across a myriadof Linux distributions and operating systems. In doing so, it greatlyincreases the number of users that application developers can easilyreach."