Flathub

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Article from Issue 202/2017
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A distro-agnostic software repository set to take the Linux world by storm.

Q Let me guess, Flathub's the center of Terry Pratchett's Discworld?

A Nope. For starters, at the center of Discworld lies a great set of mountains. Hardly the sort of thing to be called flat. Flathub (Figure 1) is a repository for applications packaged in Flatpak.

Figure 1: The Flathub website [1] is still a little sparse due to the software being new, but eventually it will become the place to find out what's going on with the project.

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