Calamares (software)
![]() Calamares installing Debian | |
Original author(s) | Teo Mrnjavac[1] |
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Developer(s) | Blue Systems, various distro developers |
Initial release | January 31, 2015[2] |
Stable release | 3.2.39.3[3]
/ 14 April 2021 |
Repository | |
Written in | C++ and Python |
Operating system | Linux |
Available in | 61 languages[4] |
Type | System installer |
License | GNU GPL (Free software) |
Website | calamares |
Calamares is a free and open-source independent and distro-agnostic system installer for Linux distributions.
Calamares is used by Garuda Linux, Manjaro, Netrunner, KaOS, KDE neon, Lubuntu, Sabayon Linux, Chakra, EndeavourOS, Artix Linux, the Live medium of Debian,[5][6] and several less known Linux distributions.[7]
Development was started in 2014 by Manjaro community member Teo Mrnjavac “with support from Blue Systems”[8][9] and then picked up by KaOS.[10]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Installer-Framework Calamares im Überblick" (in German).
- ^ "Calamares 1.0 Distribution-Independent Installer Framework Released". Phoronix.
- ^ "Release 3.2.39.3". 14 April 2021. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
- ^ "The calamares translation project". Transifex.
- ^ "Debian's NEW installer". Average Linux User. August 29, 2019.
- ^ Jonathan Carter. "Calamares Plans for Debian 11".
- ^ Nestor, Marius. "Calamares 3.2 Linux Installer Will Integrate a Module for the KDE Plasma Desktop". softpedia.
- ^ "Manjaro Works To Make Calamares A Distribution-Independent Installer". Phoronix.
- ^ "Calamares 1.0". Calamares – The universal installer framework.
- ^ Watson, J. A. "Hands-on with Ubiquity and Calamares: Two Linux installers side-by-side". ZDNet.
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