Highlights
- Rust rewrite of GNU coreutils and sudo-rs
- TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption now considered stable
- More secure services (don’t run as root if not needed, AppArmor profiles)
- AppArmor prompting for snaps is still experiemental unfortunately
Highlights
Huh. Now you’ve got me thinking. Are snaps redeemable? Are they forkable?
If you have all the AppArmor patches and use a custom snap store, I believe so. There’s some inefficiencies with flatpak that are currently ignored. For example, every flatpak app has its own bubblewrap processing running, though they are light on resource usage. However, inter process communication is really inefficient, there’s a lot of context switching. You have the app talking to the dbus proxy and the proxy talks the real dbus (there might even be a step between the dbus proxy and real dbus).
Meanwhile, for snap, this security stuff is handled by AppArmor security profiles. There’s no need for a dbus proxy.