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