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What is Puppi?
Puppy Linux running on Raspberry Pi ARM motherboard
- A small, fast, easy to use, complete, familiar, generic, general purpose operating system that just works.
- Extremely friendly for Linux and programming noobs
What are the proposed Puppi spec? likely to change during development
- Boot straight to desktop and run fast
- 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)
- use of ext2 filing system for speed, reliability and non writing to SD card
- Puppy mainstream programs
- Puppi Package Manager (PPM)
- MoManager for non-english Puppi
- Styling and customisation
Geany, Chromium/Midori/browser choice, Leafpad, Mtpaint, Xchat, Mhwaveedit, Transmission, gparted, puptv, pup phone etc
What is the BIG plan?
Puppi is part of a long term 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 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.
Once Puppy is solidly on Raspberry Pi, we will add drivers for 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.
What Puppy centric news and support is available?
