SUSE developers working on their new operating system installer “Agama” have been making steady progress and on Friday debuted Agama 16. With Agama 16 they have moved from X.Org to Wayland for powering their installer UI along with a number of other changes.
The Agama 16 operating system installer has introduced better matching for storage devices, installation status reporting via IPMI for Linux servers, initial support for using existing MD RAID arrays from the Agama web interface UI, a more friendly experience for remote installations, checking the strength of typed passwords, and other enhancements.
SUSE also decided that it’s time to switch from using the X.Org Server to Wayland as the display server for running their Firefox-based web UI for the installer on graphical installations. Switching to Wayland did increase the install image size compared to their former images using X11 but they are going to be working on improvements there along with restoring some now-missing keyboard shortcut support.
SUSE continues working on the Agama operating system installer so that it will be ready for use with the upcoming openSUSE Leap 16.0 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 16.0 operating system releases. More details on the Agama 16 changes via the Agama project blog.
