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This is an old revision of PuppiPlan made by CrustyLobster on 2012-05-31 22:56:26.
What will Puppi be like?
- Small, fast, easy to use. Just works.
- Familiar, generic, general purpose operating system
- Extremely friendly for Linux newbies
What are the proposed Puppi spec?
- Run and boot faster than other distros
- Decompress and run from the 256MB of Raspberry Pi ram
- JWM - Joe's Window Manager and/or choice of window managers as appets (pets for ARM)
- Rox File Manager (incidentally Rox was developed first on the ARM processor)
- Puppy mainstream programs
Geany, Midori/browser choice, Leafpad, Mtpaint, Xchat, Mhwaveedit, Transmission
- Recognizable Puppy scripts
- Puppi Control Panel
- Puppi Soft Phone
- Puppi GROWL Security
- MoManager for non-english Puppi
- Styling options from Saluki
- Puppi Cloud support, Meebo, Gmail, Yahoo, IRC etc as available in Slacko
Spec are likely to change during development
What is the current status?
Have boards: Antiloquax, (RacyPy developer), John Murga (forum owner, puplet developer, creator of Murga Lua programming language), Lobster, Rhadon
Boards on order: BarryK (creator of Puppy Linux), Raffy, Sickgut
What is the BIG plan?
Puppi is part of a long term strategy to make Puppy available on next generation ARM tablets and future smart phones and other devices.
Once Puppy is solidly on Raspberry Pi, we will add drivers for PARM other PARM devices
Eventually allowing for touch screens, voice control, making use of Android or other plug in apps.
First however we have to work to a common goal and working for well documented, specific hardware - cheap enough for everyone to splash out. This has evolved into the Raspberry Pi commitment.
In 2013 as the market matures, we will work towards a common ready made Android/Smartphone tablet hardware device with worldwide availability. At that time we can ask people to make a hardware commitment.
What is the Raspberry Pi plan?
Use the cheapest, most widely available, well documented motherboard
built to high engineering standards.
We are right at the beginning of software development
What Puppy centric news and support is available?
Python, Puppy and Raspberry Pi blog from Antiloquax and Lobster
