The Fedora Project announced the formation of experimental builds of Fedora 37, equipped with a redesigned Anaconda installer, which replaces the interface based on the GTK library with a web interface. The new interface allows interaction through a web browser, which greatly improves the convenience of remote control of the installation, which cannot be compared with 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 has not yet been completed and not all the planned features have been implemented. As innovations are added and bugs are fixed, it is planned to release updated builds that reflect the progress of work on the project. Users are invited to evaluate the new interface and provide constructive comments on how to improve it. Of the already available features, there is a language selection form, an interface for selecting a disk for installation, automatic partitioning on a disk, automatic installation of Fedora 37 Workstation on a created partition, a screen with an overview of the installation options selected, a screen with an installation progress indicator, built-in help.
The web interface is built on the basis of components of the Cockpit project, which is already used in Red Hat products for configuration and server managementCockpit was chosen as a proven solution with a backend for interacting with the installer (Anaconda DBus). Using Cockpit also allowed for consistency and unification of various system management components. The interface redesign leveraged the results of previous work to increase the installer's modularity—the bulk of Anaconda was converted into modules interacting via the DBus API, and the new interface uses the existing API without any internal rework.
Source: opennet.ru
