Available Calamares 2.4.4, the installer preferred by Arch-based distros

We read in SoftPedia, that for the happiness of many a new update of Squid, the linux installation framework, which comes by default in many distros such as Manjaros, chakra, KaOS, Apricity OS, BBQLinux, OpenMandriva among others.

The version of Squid 2.4.4 It comes loaded with various improvements and new features, which we estimate will be available in most of the distros in their next updates.

What is Calamares?

Squid is a Linux installation framerwork, open source, developed by a large team of programmers belonging to various communities. It was born with the purpose of creating a universal installer, which is available for any distribution.

It has a highly customizable design, in order to meet a wide variety of needs and use cases. His principal object it is to be easy, useful, beautiful, pragmatic and inclusive.

Squid includes a function of advanced partitioning, with support for manual and automated partitioning operations. It is the first installer with an automated option to "Replace partition", making it easy to reuse a partition over and over again for distribution testing.

Calamares 2.4.4 Features?

• Mejora de la gestión del indicador de partición del sistema EFI (esto elimina una dependencia de sgdisk).
• Análisis mejorado de la configuración SDDM.
• Soporte para seleccionar grupos visibles de forma predeterminada en el módulo netinstall.
• Opción añadida de actualizar la base de datos de paquetes, antes de realizar las operaciones del paquete.
• Añadido soporte para los parámetros try_install y try_remove en la configuración del módulo de paquetes.
• Se soluciona un fallo potencial en el módulo unpackfs (causado por la imposibilidad de escribir atributos extendidos en un sistema de archivos que no los soporte).
• KPMcore version 2.2 or 2.2.1 is required.

Download Squids 2.4.4

Calamares 2.4.4 está disponible para su descarga en este momento en la página web del proyecto, y es una actualización recomendada para las distribuciones de GNU / Linux que utilizan el marco instalador universal como el instalador gráfico predeterminado en sus imágenes ISO. Calamares está destinado sólo a los desarrolladores de distro, no a los usuarios finales.

It is particularly the Linux distros installer that I like the most, I think it gives Manjaro (which is the distro where I was lucky enough to try it) a very good versatility and ease of installation, which allows any user to be encouraged from the first moment to try this distro.

What comment do you have about this installer? Have you used it?