Tonight I'm releasing the first version of Orchard, a permissionless Flatpak store for Linux. There is no middle man. I don't host anyone's binaries, nothing needs approval, and there are no rankings or algorithms. For developers: ship from your own registry and sign a few Nostr events describing the app. A proof file in your repo makes the link verifiable. Check PUBLISHING.md for a walkthrough and sample CI workflow to make things dead simple (tag and push, that's it). For users: it's a real flatpak store and has built-in Flathub support so there's already thousands of apps available. All apps published to Nostr have publisher, repository, and digest verification so you know you can trust the app is what it says it is. Sign in via nostrconnect (bunker next version), review your favorite apps, and see what folks in your web of trust have said.

GitHub

GitHub - Letdown2491/orchard: A permissionless store for Flatpaks

A permissionless store for Flatpaks. Contribute to Letdown2491/orchard development by creating an account on GitHub.

going to publish the first app to Orchard tonight...if all goes well, public release follows

View quoted note → now that's good customer service.

@LNVPS.net are app configs editable? just spun up a nostr-rs-relay, but looking to edit accepted event kinds and a few other things.

Repo proofs...that's it, that's the note.

Tons of progress on Orchard, a permissionless app store (Flatpak to start, AppImage on the roadmap) for Linux using Nostr as the backend. The basics are all built, now finalizing the spec, web of trust for reviews, repo verification, etc. Orchard hosts nothing, and will come with extensive dev documentation on how to set up CI workflows to publish your apps, hosted on your OCI registry (public or self-hosted). All events will be mirrored across multiple relays so there is never an issue with an app not being available. 0.1 will be out this week so feedback will be appreciate. Will announce a repo URL soon.

Testing! Permissionless publishing of Flatpak applications over Nostr...not ready for consumption, but so far so good. Spec based on Zapstore's with a few additions. Details soon.

minimal viable product...it's a debug build so disregard the resource usage

fuck it, we're building it...permissionless store for Flatpaks incoming

we need a ZapStore but for flatpaks and appimages.

quick kumaUI demo with tons of new file manager features...more stuff soon

Mortgage rates at 7.4%...have fun staying poor.

turns out that developing a terminal emulator might be the hardest part of this whole project...

working on Koguma...currently just a file manager, soon a little bit more :success:

OS down, desktop shell essentially down, so you can guess what other project i've been working on for myself and it's familiar but different :success:

Github Actions are down for everyone right now...it's probably my fault, i've been trying to get some new workflows working since yesterday :annoyed:

Back to using X21 as my nostr client until I get my server back up.

Quick video demo of kumaUI running on kumaOS

GitHub

GitHub - Letdown2491/kumaUI: A minimalist desktop shell for Niri or Sway, used in KumaOS written in Rust and using the GPUI framework.

A minimalist desktop shell for Niri or Sway, used in KumaOS written in Rust and using the GPUI framework. - Letdown2491/kumaUI

GitHub

GitHub - Letdown2491/kumaOS: A declarative, atomic, and immutable distro based on Fedora bootc using Niri and a custom shell, kumaUI, by default.

A declarative, atomic, and immutable distro based on Fedora bootc using Niri and a custom shell, kumaUI, by default. - Letdown2491/kumaOS

luke is rolling in his proverbial grave :success: View quoted note →