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Re:Mark Shuttleworth wants to build an Ubuntu installer with... by eliaspro on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @05:52PM (#17025548)
Reinventing the wheel... there's the fantastic Calamares Installer Framework which solves exactly this problem: https://calamares.io/
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Re:Mark Shuttleworth wants to build an Ubuntu installer with... by craftyguy on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @06:08PM (#17025699)
> Reinventing the wheel

Canonical is notorious for doing this. The silver lining in this case is that they aren't reinventing all of the pieces of the wheel..

Yea, Calamares is a really cool project. It's a shame Canonical isn't using it.

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