SUSE’s Agama project is their modern OS installer featuring a web-based UI that will serve as the installer of SUSE/openSUSE in future releases moving forward. Agama 12 is now available as the newest iteration of this operating system installer and there is also now a public road-map concerning future development plans.
Agama 12 delivers a nice visual upgrade when having moved to the latest version of the Patternfly design framework. The new installer release looks much more polished and well-rounded than prior iterations. Here’s a look with some screenshots from the Agama development team:
Agama 12 also brings a revamped storage section, improvements to authentication management, post-partitioning script support for unattended installations, and other improvements.
More details on the Agama 12 changes via the project’s blog.
The Agama team is also now maintaining a public roadmap for planned features in future releases. Some upcoming items will include better i18n support, improved unattended installation capabilities, enhancements to the CLI interface, using Wayland rather than X11 for the default installation media, disk improvements, rewriting some components in Rust, and other integration enhancements. For Agama their plans at this stage are to rewrite some components in Rust rather than the current Ruby language use. But it doesn’t appear to be a complete rewrite planned at this stage.
