The new FAI release 6.4 comes with some nice new features. It now supports installing the Xfce edition of Linux Mint 22.1 'Xia'. There's also a new ISO [1] which does the unattended Linux Mint installation via FAI and does not need a network connection because all packages are available on the ISO.
The package_config configurations now support arbitrary boolean expressions with FAI classes like this: PACKAGES install UBUNTU && XORG && ! MINT If you use the command ifclass in customization scripts you can now also use these expressions. The tool fai-kvm for starting a KVM virtual machine will use UEFI variables if the VM is started with an UEFI environment, so boot settings will be saved during a reboot. For the installation of Rocky Linux and Almalinux in an UEFI environment some configuration files were added. New ISO images are available [2] but it may take a couple of weeks until the FAIme service [3] supports Linux Mint and the new FAI version. [1]: https://fai-project.org/fai-cd/faicd64-linuxmint-only_6.4.iso [2]: https://fai-project.org/fai-cd/ [3]: https://fai-project.org/FAIme
