Well, by the looks of it, it bundles all the deps in one archive, so you no longer depend on system ones, but also you miss out on system updates.
As an example, should there be another openssl vulnerability, "yum update openssl" will not save you, you'll have to wait for the Openshot dev to issue an updated appimage.
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sorin Srbu" <Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, 7 April, 2016 11:39:22
> Subject: Re: Openshot 2.x (beta) on C7??
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Nux!
>> Sent: den 7 april 2016 11:29
>> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Re: Openshot 2.x (beta) on C7??
>>
>> Very nice, it probably has to do with http://appimage.org/
>> So the appimage did not work on EL6?
>>
>> Anyway, hope to see more apps like this. :-)
>> Big win for the users usability wise, not sure how security will be
> impacted.
>>
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Sorin Srbu" <Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Sent: Thursday, 7 April, 2016 10:02:42
>> > Subject: Re: Openshot 2.x (beta) on C7??
>>
>> >> > >>> Looks like installing openshot 2.x on C7 isn't as trivial
>> >> > >>> It is not trivial at all. The best way to handle this will be to
>> > find the
>> >> > >> required packages in Fedora and rebuild them.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > So what's the easy way?
>> >> > > Switch to Ubuntu or something? 8-O
>> >
>> > Just a heads-up;
>> >
>> > I just installed CentOS 7 x64 on a test machine to try stuff out at
> work.
>> > Went to openshot.org to download Openshot, and noticed they now have
>> > appimages.
>> > Just chmod +x the appimage-file and run it.
>> >
>> > Worked like a charm on C7!
>> > It was really fast as well, compared to running the previous version on
>> > CentOS 6.
>> >
>> > I might have to upgrade to CentOS 7 at home too... 8-}
>
> You tell me.
> In any case, I'm not that used to apps that "just work" while working with
> linux!
>
> I too hope to see more of this, especially on those softwares with
> dependencies that are sometimes hard to fulfill.
>
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