Greetings Everyone
On September 26, the package Calamares got accepted in Debian. It iscurrently available in Debian unstable/sid [4] As the description of the package states. Calamares is a distribution-independent installer framework. It provides a graphical installer that can be used with nearly any distribution. This package is suitable for live media on Debian-based systems, and won't be of any particular use on and already installed system. Calamares is the first Installer into Debian apart from Debian installer. It is one of the few OS installers which is simple to use even for newbies. While still providing enough configuration options for installations. This package will simplify installation of Debian/Derivatives to a great extent. It is also a package under Fedora [5]. A lot of distributions based on Debian, Fedora, Arch, Manjaro etc have already started using calamares as there default installer. Calamares is a great installer, however it is lacking translations for Indian languages. A few of us at Hamara are already on to translating a few Indic languages. But translating all Indic languages will require people of the particular language to step in. Few Indian languages which have already been added on the transifex page[3] for Calamares are Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu & Marathi . You can request translation of calamares in your language on to calamares Transifex page. If you are an open source contributor or translator, I request you toconsider translating Calamares into Indian languages that you know. If you are part of a team of translators then you can request your team to make this happen. Understand that this contribution to calamares project will not be a contribution for any particular operating system, but for all the operating systems which use calamares installer. We at the Hamara Linux Project are also evaluating Calamares as an installer for Hamara Linux. And so far the evaluation is going great. You can try a development build of Hamara here [6] to get a feel of calamares installer.Make sure you boot into the live desktop before starting the installer. It uses calamares Installer only when you boot live into the desktop of it. If you start the Installation directly from outside, it will still use Debian Installer from the outside. We would like to see Indian languages in Calamares Installer which can be used by Hamara as well as other distributions, may be Debian themself. (Hopefully ) If you are not a translator, but you know someone who is, let them know about this. You can also forward this mail to other relevant mailing lists so that they know about this. ---------------------- [1]About calamares https://calamares.io/about <https://calamares.io/about/> [2]Git repo of calamares https://github.com/calamares/calamares [3]Transifex page for calamares https://www.transifex.com/calamares/calamares [4]Package details of Calamares in Debian https://packages.qa.debian.org/c/calamares.html [5]Package details of Calamares in Fedora https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/calamares [6]Development build of Hamara Sugam 2.0 with Calamares Installer <http://in.devel.hamaralinux.org/iso/hamara-sugam/hamara-sugam-live-2.0-beta-amd64.iso> http://in.devel.hamaralinux.org/iso/hamara-sugam/hamara-sugam-live-2.0-beta-amd64.iso Thanks, Raju Devidas
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