Alternative Installer (Calamares)

[ShalokShalom]

Hi there

I read somewhere, that the ROSA Team is a little bit unhappy with the current Installer, afaik is it outdated ?

KaOS and some other Distributions build together a Qt 5 based Installer Framework, Kevin Kofler from Fedora add rpm support, Teo, a payed BlueSystems Developer from Netrunner maintain it. It support UEFI, multiple locales, automatic partitioning and so on.


http://calamares.github.io/about/

[Pulfer]

I heard there are plans to develop own new installer that somehow uses OpenLMI (but I don't know any details).

[ShalokShalom]

It might be possible, to add OpenLMI Support to Calamares, Modules can get written in C++ and/or Python.

[ShalokShalom]

The Open Mandriva Team decide to integrate it: https://wiki.openmandriva.org/en/Releas ... #Calamares

You can follow that Process here: https://issues.openmandriva.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1016 and here: https://forums.openmandriva.org/en/disc ... mment/3906



By the Way: Calamares reach Version 1.0: http://calamares.io/

EDIT: Official Announcement: https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/0 ... 5-release/