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POSIX had a patch update 3 years ago, a minor update 12 years ago, and a major update 19 years ago.

That's the problem.

The desktop distros could and should have done a lot better to coordinate on fundamentals of user experience in the age of the open/hostile Internet and frequently updated software.




POSIX does not know much about desktops really. If you want coordination in fundamentals of desktops, look at Freedesktop specs https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/


Thanks for the referral!

Unfortunately the website isn't loading for me. Wikipedia shows their projects seem to be focused on lower level graphics/UI issues, but not app packaging and security issues that have become very important in past 10 years.


FlatPak was freedesktop.org's app packaging and security project for a couple years, when it was still called xdg-app. It's hosted on github today.

https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2015/06/24/xdg-app-moving-to-f...

https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Flatpak/




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