[TriLUG] release format for commercial project

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 10:51 PM Wes Garrison via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> Hey folks,
>
> We're about ready to release testing versions of our Business Bookkeeping
> product to compete with QuickBooks.
>
> Currently I'm building a .deb, .rpm, and .pacman. (x64/amd64 only, no arm64
> yet for win or linux, but the macOS build supports arm64 and Intel)
>
> Flatpak works, but building it is a clunky process.  Everything seems to
> install and work if you install it for the system, but the icon doesn't
> show up, and installing it with `flatpak --user` is confusing.
>
> How important is flatpak to people?  We probably won't release to Flathub
> even if we build a flatpak.
>
> I don't really want to do Snap, and appimage doesn't seem right for our use
> case, since we are using an embedded Postgresql database, but I'm willing
> to be convinced otherwise.
>
      I have not (accidentally) tried snap in a while but it is the
reason why I try my best not to use ubuntu anymore. One of the reasons
was when I  installed firefox in an ubuntu box, it quietly installed
it as snap. I had no say on that.  Another reason is shown my (trimmed
down) notes:

(20231115) Why does snapd use so much space?

5.5G    /var/lib/snapd
[...]
woozle at bigpork:~$ sudo du -sh /var/lib/snapd/*
1.6M    /var/lib/snapd/apparmor
1.6M    /var/lib/snapd/assertions
4.0K    /var/lib/snapd/auto-import
4.0K    /var/lib/snapd/cache
52K     /var/lib/snapd/cookie
12K     /var/lib/snapd/dbus-1
40K     /var/lib/snapd/desktop
12K     /var/lib/snapd/device
4.0K    /var/lib/snapd/environment
24K     /var/lib/snapd/errtracker.db
4.0K    /var/lib/snapd/features
4.0K    /var/lib/snapd/firstboot
4.0K    /var/lib/snapd/hostfs
4.0K    /var/lib/snapd/inhibit
20K     /var/lib/snapd/lib
32K     /var/lib/snapd/mount
904K    /var/lib/snapd/seccomp
157M    /var/lib/snapd/seed
60K     /var/lib/snapd/sequence
4.5G    /var/lib/snapd/snaps <------------------
8.0K    /var/lib/snapd/ssl
84K     /var/lib/snapd/state.json
0       /var/lib/snapd/state.lock
4.0K    /var/lib/snapd/system-key
4.0K    /var/lib/snapd/void
woozle at bigpork:~$

For many readers that is nitpicking but both (rocky- and debian-based)
of my  kvm hypervisor use less than 10GB of disk for their OS and
programs they need to do their thing.


I also have this to offer: https://www.linuxteck.com/ubuntu-trust-problem-2026/

> Building for Alpine seems like a huge pain, and it's a small user base,
> even by Linux standards.
>
> How much effort should I put into flatpak, and should I be considering
> other options besides the 3 I mentioned?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Wes
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