ISO Image Writer is a tool I’m working on which writes .iso files onto a USB disk ready for installing your lovely new operating system. Surprisingly many distros don’t have very slick recommendations for how to do this but they’re all welcome to try this.
It’s based on ROSA Image Writer which has served KDE neon and other projects well for some time. This adds ISO verification to automatically check the digital signatures or checksums, currently supported is KDE neon, Kubuntu and Netrunner. It also uses KAuth so it doesn’t run the UI as root, only a simple helper binary to do the writing. And it uses KDE Frameworks goodness so the UI feels nice.
First alpha 0.1 is out now.
Download from https://download.kde.org/unstable/isoimagewriter/
Signed by release manager Jonathan Riddell with 0xEC94D18F7F05997E. Git tags are also signed by the same key.
It’s in KDE Git at kde:isoimagewriter and in bugs.kde.org, please do try it out and report any issues. If you’d like a distro added to the verification please let me know and/or submit a patch. (The code to do with is a bit verbose currently, it needs tidied up.)
I’d like to work out how to make AppImages, Windows and Mac installs for this but for now it’s in KDE neon developer editions and available as source.
OpenSUSE already has the openSUSE Imagewriter, which does the same thing (sans checksum validation, but with isohybrid validation). It’s definitely my favourite image writing tool.