moving graphical installer to GTK 3

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de
Thu May 20 07:54:29 BST 2021


On 5/20/21 12:54 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Even if was decided to recommend that new users use live media for
> installations, the flexibility of d-i is massively powerful, and we
> shouldn't give up on it. The ability to support everything from a
> serial terminal up to a graphical installer on the same media is
> lovely.

Yes, debian-installer is a fantastic piece of software and the right installer
for a distribution that can be installed on everything, from a toaster to an
IBM zSeries mainframe. And it's fun hacking the codebase.

We can still use Calamares for the live-medium to suit non-expert users.

Adrian

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