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Releasing version 10

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As you can see we have a new place for our Agama blog! So let's start with announcing the Agama version 10 release at this new place! 馃帀


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Releasing version 9

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Agama 8 was a massive release. It took almost five months of work and, as a result, Agama got a new HTTP API and a more powerful user interface for setting up storage devices. Not that bad, uh?


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Releasing version 8

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The YaST Team is back with more news about Agama. On our previous post we exposed the first two steps of our roadmap for 2024: a more powerful user interface for the storage setup and a new Cockpit-free architecture with a better API for external callers. Now we are proud to announce Agama 8, delivering initial versions of both features.


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The year of Agama

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At the end of 2023 we announced Agama 7 stating that version is the first prototype we could consider to be (quoting ourselves) "functional enough", covering areas such as localization, network configuration, storage setup, authentication basis and some software selection. Now it's time to go deeper into every area... and we have a plan for that.


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Releasing version 7

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It's vacation season in Europe and most of the YaST development team will be busy for a couple of weeks singing Chistmas songs, celebrating the arrival of a new year and opening presents from the Three Wise Men. But we didn't want to leave the openSUSE fans idle for so long. So we decided to release another prototype of Agama, so you can have fun testing it and giving us feedback.


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Releasing version 4

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After publishing Agama 3 a month ago, it is time for a new release. Among other things, this new version fixes several issues in the startup process, allows the use of a network proxy, adds (partial) support for IPv6, includes a few improvements in the web UI and features a new tool to extract Agama-related logs.


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Summer activities in Agama and ALP

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After almost five months without blogging we are back to confirm the YaST Team is still alive and kicking! Among many other things, we have been working lately on several internal aspects of Agama, the project previously known as D-Installer. And since SUSE is publishing an early preview of the first ALP-based product that will be released next year, we decided it was time to put a new version of Agama out, so you can use it to take a look to ALP Dolomite from a different angle.


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Releasing version 0.8

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Six weeks ago we announced D-Installer 0.7 and a lot has happened since then. The most important news is that we just released a new prototype with version 0.8, integrating several exciting new features we will go through in this post. But this prototype is not only important because of those features, but also because it will be the last D-Installer release! Fear not, we are not abandoning the project... quite the opposite.


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Adding auto-installation support

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AutoYaST is a crucial tool for our users, including customers and partners. So it was clear from the beginning that D-Installer should be able to install a system in an unattended manner.

This article describes the status of this feature and gives some hints about our plans. But we want to emphasize that nothing is set in stone (yet), so constructive comments and suggestions are more than welcome.


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Compare Calling D-Bus in Ruby and Rust

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For D-Installer we already have a Ruby CLI that was created as a proof of concept. Then as part of of the hackweek we created another one in Rust to learn a bit about Rust and get our hands dirty. Now that we are familiar with both, we want to measure the overhead of calling D-Bus methods in Rust and Ruby, to make sure that if we continue with Rust, we won't be surprised by its speed. speed (hint: we do not expect it, but expectations and facts may be different).


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Systemd Container and Podman in GitHub CI

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As D-Installer consists of several components like D-Bus backend, CLI or web frontend, we see a need to test in CI that each component can start and communicate properly with each other. For this we use a test framework and more importantly GitHub CI where we need a systemd container which is not documented at all. In the following paragraphs we would like to share with you how we did it so that so that each of you can be inspired by it or use it for your own project.


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Releasing version 0.7

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Although we have been actively working on YaST and D-Installer, we have been silent since the beginning of December. We are sorry for that! Today we are resuming our blogging activity announcing the availability of D-Installer 0.7. Let's look at what it is new and what you can expect from the upcoming releases.


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D-Installer needs your help

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Now that the headline got your attention, let's start with the good news - D-Installer development is progressing just fine. What's the matter then? To answer that question is important to make a difference between D-Installer itself and the live ISO image we provide for everyone to test it.


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Announcing the D-Installer Project

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As you may know, YaST is not only a control center for (open)SUSE Linux distributions, but it is also the installer. And, in that regard, we think it is a competent installer. However, time goes by, and YaST shows its age in a few aspects.


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