is snap and flatpak secure software?

Just be careful what you install. Some stuff may have bugs. I recommend if you install either, you check the licenses of anything you install with flatpak or snap.

Though I think you can only install either of these by using ubuntu ppas. Which isn't really wise, as ppas can be insecure... aka, its a risk.

;)

As for if it is free software, technically it might be, but its hard to say.

name at domain wrote:
> https://www.flatpak.org/
> https://snapcraft.io/
>
> Both are software you can use, share, modify and redistribute. I take
> no interest in if fsf says, it is not free software.

I'd be interested in that commentary because the FSF has a history of
publishing insightful criticism regarding software freedom. Their views are
usually well ahead of what you're likely to read about in the corporate
computer press. Examples include: the problems with DRM as highlighted in
Stallman's short story "The Right to Read", seeing Java as a trap when the
only implementations were nonfree, and pointing out that Javascript
programs people acquire and run via webpages are often nonfree.

> Both about snap and flatpak you get to know the license of the program
> you install.
That's good, but like any other installation system this is properly
evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

> What I want to know is, if snap and flatpak are secure on a
> level like major gnulinux distributions.

Secure from what, specifically? The question seems very broad.