Cassidy’s Blog

Flatpak & Flathub

Posts about Flathub or building and publishing apps with Flatpak

Publish Your Godot Engine Game to Flathub image

Publish Your Godot Engine Game to Flathub Wed, Dec 11, 2024

Reach millions of users on the Linux app store with Flatpak

If you follow me on the fediverse (@cassidy@blaede.family), you may have seen me recently gushing about ROTA, a video game I recently discovered. Besides…

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Use Commit from Flatpak Both Inside and Outside of Toolbx Tue, Oct 10, 2023

Is this terrible? Probably. But it works!

This one’s gonna be a short one, and is mostly for my own notes. :) I like to use the Commit app as a…

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Stars & Thumbs Mon, Jul 31, 2023

Thoughts on app ratings and reviews

I’m on my way back from GUADEC in Rīga, Latvia and one recurring discussion (of many) was centered around how ratings and reviews are…

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3D Printing on Endless OS image

3D Printing on Endless OS Tue, Mar 7, 2023

…or any other Linux OS with Flathub

I recently got a 3D printer for my birthday, and I have been absolutely loving tinkering, printing, and learning with it. There is such…

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elementary OS 6 Odin Available Now Tue, Aug 10, 2021

It’s finally here, and it’s the biggest update to the platform yet

It’s been a long road to elementary OS 6—what with a whole global pandemic dropped on us in the middle of development—but it’s finally…

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elementary OS 6 Beta 2 Now Available Wed, Jun 16, 2021

Installer, Flatpak, Online Accounts, Notifications, and more since Beta 1

Developers and testers, elementary OS 6 Beta 2 is available now! For a refresher on what a beta is, the release schedule, and how…

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Flathub on elementary OS Tue, Apr 14, 2020

Note: this post contains some future-thinking from me, and doesn’t necessarily match up with any plans or thoughts of elementary as a whole. There’s…

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Introducing elementary OS 5.1 Hera image

Introducing elementary OS 5.1 Hera Tue, Dec 3, 2019

A major update on a solid foundation

Last October, we announced elementary OS 5 Juno with wide-ranging updates to provide a more refined user experience, improve productivity for new and seasoned…

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Updates for October, 2019 Fri, Nov 1, 2019

The Flatpak Update. Plus: prepping for LAS and wrapping up Hacktoberfest.

Welcome to November! A bit later this month we’ll be attending the Linux App Summit alongside folks from Canonical, CodeThink, Collabora, Endless, Flatpak, Fractal,…

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elementary at GUADEC 2019 Thu, Sep 5, 2019

Hanging out with GNOME in Thessaloniki, Greece

Cassidy and fellow GUADEC attendees arriving at the Thessaloniki airport GUADEC is the annual GNOME User And Developer European* Conference where contributors to GNOME…

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elementary AppCenter + Flatpak Mon, Apr 1, 2019

Preparing for the future

Image from Flatpak.org After several years(!) of observing, exploring, and engaging with various newer packaging formats, we’re excited to announce that elementary will be…

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We’re Back from LAS 2018 Wed, Sep 12, 2018

Sharing knowledge and wisdom in Denver, Colorado

This past week elementary contributors Daniel Foré, Felipe Escoto, Blake Kostner, and I met up in Denver, Colorado for the Libre Application Summit (LAS)….

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