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SmartOS vs Flatpak: What are the differences?
What is SmartOS? Converged Container and Virtual Machine Hypervisor. It combines the capabilities you get from a lightweight container OS, optimized to deliver containers, with the robust security, networking and storage capabilities you’ve come to expect and depend on from a hardware hypervisor.
What is Flatpak? Build and distribute applications on Linux. It is a next-generation technology for building and distributing desktop applications on Linux.
SmartOS and Flatpak belong to "Virtual Machine Platforms & Containers" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by SmartOS are:
- Secure containers
- Full isolation per container in a multi-tenant environment
- Built-in networking
On the other hand, Flatpak provides the following key features:
- Build for every distro - Create one app and distribute it to the entire Linux desktop market.
- Stable platforms - Runtimes provide platforms of common libraries that you can depend on.
- Consistent environments - Develop and test your application in an environment that’s identical to the one users have.
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Learn MoreWhat is Flatpak?
It is a next-generation technology for building and distributing desktop applications on Linux
What is SmartOS?
It combines the capabilities you get from a lightweight container OS, optimized to deliver containers, with the robust security, networking and storage capabilities you’ve come to expect and depend on from a hardware hypervisor.
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