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SUSE's Agama Installer Switches From X.Org To Wayland For Installation GUI

([SUSE] 3 Hours Ago SUSE Agama 16)


SUSE developers working on their new operating system installer "Agama" have been making steady progress and on Friday debuted Agama 16. With Agama 16 they have moved from X.Org to Wayland for powering their installer UI along with a number of other changes.

The Agama 16 operating system installer has introduced better matching for storage devices, installation status reporting via IPMI for Linux servers, initial support for using existing MD RAID arrays from the Agama web interface UI, a more friendly experience for remote installations, checking the strength of typed passwords, and other enhancements.

SUSE also decided that it's time to switch from using the X.Org Server to Wayland as the display server for running their Firefox-based web UI for the installer on graphical installations. Switching to Wayland did increase the install image size compared to their former images using X11 but they are going to be working on improvements there along with restoring some now-missing keyboard shortcut support.

SUSE continues working on the Agama operating system installer so that it will be ready for use with the upcoming openSUSE Leap 16.0 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 16.0 operating system releases. More details on the Agama 16 changes via the [1]Agama project blog .



[1] https://agama-project.github.io/blog/2025/07/04/agama-16


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So Richard and I decided to try to catch [the small shark].
With a great deal of strategy and effort and shouting, we managed to
maneuver the shark, over the course of about a half-hour, to a sort of
corner of the lagoon, so that it had no way to escape other than to
flop up onto the land and evolve. Richard and I were inching toward
it, sort of crouched over, when all of a sudden it turned around and --
I can still remember the sensation I felt at that moment, primarily in
the armpit area -- headed right straight toward us.
Many people would have panicked at this point. But Richard and
I were not "many people." We were experienced waders, and we kept our
heads. We did exactly what the textbook says you should do when you're
unarmed and a shark that is nearly two feet long turns on you in water
up to your lower calves: We sprinted I would say 600 yards in the
opposite direction, using a sprinting style such that the bottoms of
our feet never once went below the surface of the water. We ran all
the way to the far shore, and if we had been in a Warner Brothers
cartoon we would have run right INTO the beach, and you would have seen
these two mounds of sand racing across the island until they bonked
into trees and coconuts fell onto their heads.
-- Dave Barry, "The Wonders of Sharks on TV"