Ubuntu 23.10's New Software App Will Demote DEBs (Apparently) - OMG! Ubuntu
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A new 'app store' is expected to ship as part of Ubuntu 23.10 when it's released in October — and it'll debut with a notable change to DEB support. Don't

A new ‘app store’ is expected to ship as part of Ubuntu 23.10 when it’s released in October — and it’ll debut with a notable change to DEB support.

  • BuoyantCitrus
    74·
    1 year ago

    Aren’t you sorta trusting whoever wrote any package you install with root? I mean, you should have that attitude anyhow as packages have a huge attack surface so privilege escalation bugs are way more common than remote execution but still, flatpak and snap at least offer a bit of a sandbox which might improve…

    • rambaroo@beehaw.org
      7·
      1 year ago

      Depends on your distro and what’s available in the repo. With default repos you’re more trusting the distro developer to vet packages.

      I trust debian for that. It’s been a while since I used Ubuntu so I don’t remember how their repos are set up but the debian team is notoriously conservative with their repos.

    • mFat@lemdro.id
      4·
      1 year ago

      The track record has been very good as far as i know with thousands of packages over the years so I doubt if there is a real problem to be solved here.