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About sandboxed applications

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About sandboxed applications

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- [Instructor] Sandboxed software utilizes operating system containers to include all dependencies in one downloadable distribution-agnostic file. This means you could have multiple versions of the same software installed using multiple versions of the same libraries, a scenario which is very difficult to do currently due to version conflicts. The downfall is that every package has a lot of redundant software in it, because software that would normally be shared between applications has been included in each sandboxed package. You may end up with 20 copies of the same library, many of them the exact same version. In the early days of Linux, there were multiple different projects to create software installation tools. Because they're being developed in parallel, there ended up being separate solutions for Debian, Red Hat, and Slackware distributions, which is why multiple software package formats, local installation…

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