Playlist "All Systems Go! 2026"
A unified OS installer in systemd
Linux doesn't have a unified way to be installed. Every distribution implements their own installer with a different feature set and UX. systemd-sysinstall is a tool to install an OS to a device. It leverages repart to format the disk and bootctl to manage UEFI and the boot partition and supports disk encryption and TPM integration. In addition, it exposes a varlink interface to be used by graphical installers.
In this talk we will explore what sysinstall does, how the GNOME OS installer (gnome-setup) leverages it to install GNOME OS, why distributions shipping GNOME should switch to gnome-setup, and how other desktop environments can build installers using the same stack.
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