Here is the request asked:
Probably should open a thread here on Tizen.edoc wrote:gcmartin - have you looked at Tizen at all?
Linux-based, Google-free, it's easy to port Android apps, 2,000 Tizen apps already posted & 100% profit to app posters for the first year ... what's not to like?
Tizen has its business model direction to start its own OS brand. Like Apple, Blackberry, Android, Chrome, and several others, they ALL are a derivative base of Linux/Unix.
Linux, ReactOS, Tizen, etc, all fall under the Open Source monocle, need industry players to survive. And, in doing so, they MUST come up with a healthy business model to move forward as they garner believers. Have you looked at their webpage or at their developer's conference deliverables?
For me, Puppy Linux much too much presently where it can become much more attractive to the world with some very simple steps.
Even though, Puppyland, has not taken a more business directed approach to using the Puppy version of Linux for its own, in home, products, it is uniquely poised to do so. When I say business, I mean in terms of roadmap layout...not profit motive.
I am hopeful that maybe, this year, some creative members will begin to migrate Puppy a little to become a more LAN centric home "authority" device such that it begins to evolve as, if not one of the, but "the" central controller for information flow within the home.
This is a missed opportunity, up until now. I think we are at the doorstep but it has not be articulated in a viwew that Puppy members can see. Yet, I think that when they do, Puppy Linux can and will become the shot heard "round the world".
For example: Let suppose for even a second, that someone delivered a PUP that could be the primary center for ALL traffic that comes and goes within the home. The problem, today, is that current members see traffic as data to/fro the Internet. But, suppose we opened our eyes even a little to see data as a sub-element of traffic, then we can begin to see the doorstep that's there. Once the doorstep is recognized, it becomes apparent that everything we do in our homes constitutes traffic that we manage to our benefit. This means that PUPPY Linux begins its migration from a personal tinkerers toy to a full practical center stage systems for managing all traffic and its elements to the home's advantage. So it starts with router functions and adds data collection functions to the point of giving a home owner a total picture of all activity of the home. The home collects this information in its home directory where a home owner now uses the information collected from all of the traffic to automate decision processes. Those of us in the network industry know what I refer as its been around formally for 2 decades and the architecture has had an X.xxx international definition formally for 34 years.
Only businesses have been doing this to you. Puppy can easily evolve from its personal roots, to the next 2 levels without ever losing its personal roots!
I'm hopeful that other members also see this and begin to help bring about the adjustment in the prism we see Puppy Linux thru to take advantage of the processing power members of this community have at their fingertips for in-home advantage. All of the information moving in/out of the home is lost for the most part. Some simple changes could make user lives much more crystal-clear with a significantly increased security force arrangement than is given us, today, by vendors. Where I sit, many of the components are already sitting in Puppyland ... just not seen for the centralized advantage they would give homes.
This is written in haste as I leave for the week, but, I hope the spirit is seen.
I believe with the steps members have taken, since WOOF-CE started, has already cast the stone in the smooth pond. And everyone of us knows the ripple effect that occurs.
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