Anaconda is getting a new suit (Fedora Community Blog)

Posted Jan 12, 2022 14:54 UTC (Wed) by wtarreau (subscriber, #51152)
In reply to: Anaconda is getting a new suit (Fedora Community Blog) by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Anaconda is getting a new suit (Fedora Community Blog)

OK thanks for explaining, because I had never heard about that cockpit thing before and am still not very clear about what it is, despite the link. So with this out of the equation suddenly the comments bring much less exploitable info :-)

Also reading "its just a simple Python wrapper over Webkit" isn't exactly something that triggers a "wow looks rock solid then" feeling inside me, but they explain they're already relying on this so it shouldn't add any extra weakness nor dependency at least.

Anaconda is getting a new suit (Fedora Community Blog)

Posted Jan 12, 2022 17:25 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (1 responses)

> OK thanks for explaining, because I had never heard about that cockpit thing before and am still not very clear about what it is, despite the link

https://cockpit-project.org/ is a web interface for administering servers. Think Webmin but much more modular and sane interface with support for a wide variety of things -> https://cockpit-project.org/applications.html

A glance at https://cockpit-project.org/blog/ will give you an idea of what they support as well. Sounds like the installer team wants to leverage all the work done within Cockpit project instead of maintaining their own GTK based interface.

Anaconda is getting a new suit (Fedora Community Blog)

Posted Jan 13, 2022 2:12 UTC (Thu) by m4rtink (guest, #95458) [Link]

Yes, then plan is to use the existing - and IMHO well proven by this point - Cockpit and PatternFly[0] components to build the Anaconda Web UI.

[0] https://www.patternfly.org/v4/