The Fedora project has announced the formation of experimental builds of Fedora 37, equipped with a redesigned Anaconda installer, which offers a web interface instead of the GTK-based interface. The new interface allows interaction via a web browser, significantly enhancing the convenience of remote installation management, which is unbeatable compared to the old solution based on the VNC protocol. The size of the ISO image is 2.3 GB (x86_64).
The development of the new installer is not yet complete, and not all intended features have been implemented. As new features are added and bugs are fixed, updated builds reflecting the progress of the project are planned to be released. Users are encouraged to evaluate the new interface and provide constructive feedback for its improvement. Among the already available features are the language selection form, disk selection interface for installation, automatic disk partitioning, automatic installation of Fedora 37 Workstation on the created partition, a screen with an overview of the selected installation options, a screen with an installation progress indicator, and built-in help.
The web interface is built on the components of the Cockpit project, already used in Red Hat products for configuration and management.. Cockpit has been chosen as a well-established solution, for which there is a backend to interact with the installer (Anaconda DBus). The use of Cockpit has also allowed for consistency and unification of various system management components. In redesigning the interface, results from previous work to enhance the modularity of the installer were used — the main part of Anaconda was transformed into modules that interact via the DBus API, and the new interface utilizes the existing API without internal reworking.
Source: opennet.ru
