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[matthiasclasen]

Here are some questions that I think might be good to answer, either on the website itself, or as an faq:

• Can flatpak be used for servers too ?
• How does flatpak compare to other application sandboxing technologies: zeroinstall, glick, snap, ... ?
• How does flatpak compare to other packaging technologies: rpm, dep,... ?
• Which runtime should I use for my app ?
• What about security updates ?

[jimmac]

FAQ sounds appropriate, but perhaps security updates (frequent argument for distros) is an area we should emphasize. If we have a good story there, that is :)

[alexlarsson]

Can flatpak be used for servers too ?

Flatpak is designed to run inside a desktop session, and relies on certain session services being there, such as a dbus session bus and a systemd --user instance. So, is not a good match for a server.

However, the build features of flatpak run fine outside a session, so you can build things on a server.

How does flatpak compare to other application sandboxing technologies: zeroinstall, glick, snap, ... ?

This is complicated to answer. I'm not sure we want to go through the pain of doing comparison to all of these.

[allanday]

"Which runtime should I use for my app ?" is covered by the updated runtime page - http://flatpak.org/runtimes.html

[allanday]

I've created issue #227 and #228 to track the remaining parts of this.