That PC could do something no one in the forum has mentioned.
I have been reluctant to mention a new approach because so many people are "alarmed" when someone mentions a new way of looking at things.
But, this may be a good place to mention this, for, it has little downside as we are searching for ways to both incent Puppy development, attract new community members and define new product which helps shape home usage as we march into our future on the planet.
Any corporate sponsors reviewing this; be aware, that I am not divulging any corporate secrets as my comments are theoretical.
Let's look, first at what is happening in Public space, today. Many, if not most of us, have a handheld smartdevice of some type. As Apple&Microsoft (and Google too) are already moving, your handheld is taking on a personalization where it will "key" to you (authentication) and will ONLY operate for you (this is similar to what UEFI intends to do for industry).
The "personal" device will accompany you everywhere (hence, SONY's waterproof device) and will operate to do all sorts of personal stuff for you. Thus, it "centers" around those things important to YOU. Phoning, pictures, opening-locking doors, starting your car(s), alerting you of home events, entertainment, much of which is allowing this to occur without you ever touching its screen. This is your personal assistant to help you.
In the home, Puppy and others have centered on a single PC. Most, excepting couple of the 64bit PUPs have ONLY focused on LAN use to the internet
while disregarding that ALL hand-me-downs are NETWORK CENTRIC with SMB technology providing sharing capability There is NOT one of us who has been given a hand-me-down that did not come with Apple/Microsoft. Yet, for some unknown reason, the 32bit developers of this community to this day, continue to ignore this need. This type of behavior is identical to the same disregard we accuse Apple and Microsoft of. Why, you ask, is this even important?
The advantage we are ignoring is the LAN. And participation on it with ALL OTHER HOME Devices we are seeing crop up on the marketplace.
So here's the wild thought that a PC of the power just mention,can be used to "evolutionize" (new word) Puppy presenting itself in the home on a device that powerful:
That PC with a properly configured PUP can be all of the following on the LAN
- A desktop to the owner
- a HOME central system
- a HOME NAS
- A HOME event logging system
- a HOME multimedia server
- a HOME boot server where ANY other HOME PC would NOT need to have local OS media, as it could "select" or default from the boot server what to boot.
- a Virtual Host allowing many simultaneous guest distros to run, simultaneously, and operate on the local LAN
- a HOME development system via KVM (which is built into many PUP kernels)
- a HOME test system via KVM (which is built into many PUP kernels)
- a HOME system you can talk to and is capable of enabling disabled humans to use and manage
- a HOME etc...
All of this operating on that same single large RAM system shown for home operation(s) while providing very good performance to all subsystems mentioned.
The problem is
NOT going to be new technology for 01Micko, Kirk, TaZoC, JamesBond, ETP and others have already done most every one of these with Puppy technology already here.
But, no one is brave enough to step forward with an attempt to announce a distro with all of these capabilities for fear that "old" members will denounce the effort produced. This community is engrossed in constant behavior where if something exist that a member personally dislike, they rush to call it "bloat" while disregarding any benefit that would exist. This is done in an effort to invite others to join in and "denounce/discredit" someone's effort.
So, BEWARE those who will look at this PC and make a declaration while missing the proposal's mission of getting CURRENT technology into the hands of those who would most want to contribute to Puppy's future on both old and current PCs and devices.
Just as we have evolved from 486s to Pentium1 to Pentium2 to PENTIUMx to ARMs to etc, this community can produce a functional and appealing set of system distros that meets both yesterday's challenges as well as current and tomorrow's needs.
This is a new way of looking at what we have already and stands that it may be of interest to attract many who would come to both investigate, test, report and contribute to NOT a PC distro, but to a HOME distro delivered via a PC.
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P.S. Oh, that is some extraordinary all-in-one, touch PC shown.