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TheMukt reports
Developer Vratislav Podzimek announced the next-gen partition manager for Fedora, blivet-gui. It is eventually going to replace GParted, the most popular GUI based partition manager found in all major distros. The new tool is named blivet-gui, as it is based on the blivet python library (originally Anaconda's storage management and configuration tool).
The need of a new partition manager is [rooted in] the fact that none of the existing GUI partitioning tools supports all the modern storage technologies. Fedora's Anaconda base supports all and is hence chosen as the back-end for this new intuitive tool. The application is only a few months old but is already looking nice and useful. Features like RAID and BTRFS support are being worked on. Vojtech Trefny is the other developer working with Vratislav on blivet-gui.
The look and feel closely follows that of GParted so that users experience a familiar interface. blivet-gui also handles tasks in the same way GParted does -- add tasks one by one and then press the "Apply" button.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by mechanicjay on Tuesday September 09 2014, @03:24PM
I was going to say pretty much the same thing, thanks for saving me the trouble. I think they just have a bad case of NIH syndrome, which is ultimately not helpful.
My VMS box beat up your Windows box.