SUSE's D-Installer Taking Shape As New Web-Based Linux Distro Installer

[misuzu]

they have a native installer. this is useful if you are on the go - do not have direct access to the machine - I guess?

A TUI installer over ssh should be enough for this case.

[bobbie424242]

Linux Installers is not a solved problem in 2022 apparently. Probably won't be in 2040 either because why not and novel ways discovered for installing distros...

[fagnerln]

I'm not huge fan of the yast to install the distro because of the partitioning, isn't as intuitive as some other installer (but still it's far better than fedora). I hope that this method improve the UX.

But I don't understand the advantage of a web based installer.

Oh, and Iguana is an amazing name to the project

[tomtomme]

they have a native installer. this is useful if you are on the go - do not have direct access to the machine - I guess?

[uid313]

Web-based application for an installer seems a poor fit. People like web-based applications for cross-platform things but an installer will always run on Linux so it sounds like it would be better suited to be native instead.

[kescherPh]

Woo-hoo, a web-based installer. What could possibly go wrong.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: SUSE's D-Installer Taking Shape As New Web-Based Linux Distro Installer

In addition to Red Hat being busy working on their new web-based Anaconda installer for future Fedora and RHEL releases, SUSE engineers have also been pursuing their own web-based installer built atop YaST. D-Installer 0.4 was released recently as the latest improvements on that front...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=D-Installer-0.4