Empowering the next billion with OSTree, Flatpak, NDN, and the cloud
summary
Claims that half the world lacks Internet and average global income is ~$15,000 lead to concrete tactics: OSTree as git for whole filesystem provides atomic OS commits, hard‑link layering, binary deltas, and rollback so updates don’t brick devices; Flatpak bundles with platform runtime produce single-file app artifacts, sandboxed permissions, and platform updates that fix many apps at once (Endless ships apps this way); and NDN testbed exists experiments content‑addressable delivery to improve caching and locality for metered, high‑latency links.
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chapters (32)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:21Perspective
- 1:55The blueberry
- 2:27The current world
- 3:51Half of the world does not have Internet
- 4:31They wont be able to get Amazon package overnight
- 5:06They wont be able to Google search
- 5:55Mobile coverage is getting there
- 7:30Most developers are on metered connections
- 8:28The philanthropic perspective
- 9:35The anarchist perspective
- 11:03Mobile connectivity companies
- 11:34Reducing transfer volumes
- 13:05OSTree
- 17:32Media Center PC
- 18:00State Changes
- 18:32OS Tree
- 20:47OS Tree CLI
- 22:53Live Demo
- 26:59Flatpak
- 28:52Basics
- 29:51Building
- 31:00Building Flatpak
- 35:27Flat Hub
- 35:37Centralized Application Store
- 36:33Platform SDK
- 37:33Demo
- 39:22Locality
- 42:09Content Store
- 44:18Testbed Network
- 45:20Recap
- 45:51Questions
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