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2 July 2012 Alpha 2 Puppi SAP with working keyboard editing, gtkdialog and a many new dogee biscuits
What will Puppi be like?
- Small, fast, easy to use. Complete, familiar, generic, general purpose operating system for Raspberrians.
- Just works.
- Extremely friendly for Linux and PuppySchoolProgramming programming noobs
What are the proposed Puppi spec? likely to change during development
- Boot and run fast
- Decompress and run from the 256MB of Raspberry Pi RAM
- jwm JWM - Joe's Window Manager and/or choice of window managers as appets (pets for ARM)
- ROXfiler Rox File Manager (incidentally Rox was developed first on the ARM processor)
- uses of ext2 filing system for speed, reliability and non writing to SD card (leading to premature failure)
- Puppy mainstream programs
geany Geany, CategoryBrowser Chromium/Midori/browser choice, Leafpad, Mtpaint, Xchat, Mhwaveedit, Transmission, gparted, puptv, pup phone etc
- Puppi Package Manager
- Major programs eg LibreOffice
- Puppi Control Panel
- Puppi Security GROWL Security
- MoManager for non-english Puppi
- Styling and customisation
What is the BIG plan?
Puppi is part of a long term PARM PARM strategy to make Puppy available on next generation ARM tablets and future superphones and other devices. Puppy is already moving towards 64bit and CPU independence.
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 will ask puppys to make another hardware commitment.
Why Raspberry Pi?
Use the cheapest, most widely available, well documented motherboard
built to high engineering standards.
We are right at the beginning of software development
Prepare to learn EVERYTHING
What Puppy centric news and support is available?
