These distros do EVERYTHING that a Microsoft/Apple PC does!
Posted: Fri 09 Mar 2012, 01:39
Appeal to the Puppy Community to those who are in any position to help
The text, enclosed in this post, is both an Announcement and an Appeal to our community.
Announcement
THE PUPPY that does Everything that a Microsoft PC or an Apple PC does without the need to install anything. These system deliver an Out-Of-The-Box (OOTB) experience that provides LAN services and shareing along with its traditional desktop user services, that is equivalent to what is found in Mocrosoft and Apple desktop laptop PCs systems.
I have been around in the Puppy forum community since 2005. I am not a distro builder. Nor am I a applications developer. This community has great, great people who do wonderful jobs at that to the benefit of all of us.
Puppy has been maturing a lot over the years. Much thanks goes to this forum community members who have contributed immensely in what it has become.
In its start, there were many still running 486s. Today, almost all new members are arriving in Puppyland equipped with P4s at a minimum and many are running much, much, much faster PCs. When Puppy started it was addressing PC of 128NB+. Today, no new member that I have witnessed has entered Puppyland with such small memory size such that most, if not all come here with 1GB+ RAM.
In an initial effort to run such a small OS on such a small RAM platform over such a small link to the internet, Puppy had to take some very clever steps to meet those PC sizes. Today, some PUPs are evolving as they mature to reach the PCs that are in existence since 2006 to now. Further, many older PCs dating back to 2000 can benefit by added RAM which many members have done cheaply. (I have a P4 with 4GB of PAM, for example)
Everything that a Microsoft-Apple PC does without the need to install anything.
I have been running the LightHouse distros for several years. It was created by one of our community members who has fallen ill. I hope its not a terminal illness, but in his last message to us it appears to be grave. He and I had corresponded over his achievements in Puppyland since before his 32bit Lighthouse502 distro. He has always been a great guiding light during his 32bit development in 502 and 503. After completion of 503, in discussion on RAM in the forum, his attention turned from the 32bit series of Lighthouse progressions to 64bit. His distros for unique and blazing in the scope he brought to the 64bit community. It wasn't just another distro, it was "over the top" in its design, offering, product mix, boot process for initial ISO system usage (Live/Frugal/Full), a complete single screen localization effort at initial and subsequent use, a unique update tool, straight-forward desktop layout and Menu selections, along with an ability to address 32bit Window apps should a need exist. One of my LightHouse platforms has NOT been rebooted since I did an initial save-session to "contain' all or those used to create my desktop workspace. Its blazing fast and just runs and runs and runs.
In his latest version 5.14, he made a "Christmas Present to all of us" as he released a version that allows any device received at Christmas (or earlier) which talks to Microsoft/Apple, to share and use items with LightHouse64. This among other nifty items is one of the greatest contribution from an OOTB distro ever produced in our community.
I think each and everyone of us can appreciate that this is a Herculean feat. For we have someone with failing health cobble together one of the greatest achievements this community has ever witnessed. An OOTB COMPLETE REPLACEMENT FOR MICROSOFT/APPLE and you don't even has to install it because you can run it from your Live media (CD/DVD) saving your work to the Live media as you go.
Here's where our community can help itself and help ths member out. Since his health is failing, we can assist in several areas:
I have some personal reasons for the desire (or need) to run a RAM based OS on any PC. This goes back to my days of DOS in the beginning, to OS2, to Citrix to Knoppix to Puppy to one other newer distro which also is pushing for recognition. This grew out of a mainframe design spec I wrote over 31 years ago (not publicly published). Then, in the subsequent years, I was able to test this and bring it to implementation on several of the production mainframes of that era demonstrating significant opening of windows for workload management and increased transaction rates.
There is no doubt, today, that properly designed RAM based systems provides ample room for additions, expansions, and use. This is very clear to all vendors, today, who build hand-held products. These "real-time" systems will only continue to become the diections for business and consumer, alike. In fact, there never was a view in business of consumers. There is "Business"; the notion of consumers is really one of the business models that businesses approach. This is because products are a universal tool that merely expands in the audience who find use for it. And we see this over and over again in the technology arenas.
Lighhouse64 is a distro that has been designed from the "ground-up" to be a Linux RAM based system which, OOTB, does EVERYTHING you get from a Microsoft-Apple PC. .... Everything!
Further, my most personal of reasons is the humanitarian side that says if we can helps someone who may have fallen, lets pick and continue as a tribute to what has been provided for our stability and comfort. Let's do it to help a fellow comrade in a way which doesn't take anything from any of us.
in looking at his last message to the forum, he was humble and apologetic for his deteriorating condition. But he left us with a gem, that I think this community might be able to support and extend.
If you have a 64bit PC and you haven't looked at this, you may be thrilled, should you. I encourage anyone new to Puppy or Lighthouse64 to start with Mariner, for it is the most comprehensive in its deliver. If you are like me and others, you may notice that you'll never have needed to install anything to use an office suite, an Internet suite, and all the other items that OOTB you get from Microsoft-Apple.
And if you can help in any way, please do what you can such that this effort continues to push Puppy maturity forward for everyone.
My thanks goes out to TaZoC and my well wishes continue to be sent. And thanks in advance for anything anyone of us can do to help on the forum with LightHouse64 Mariner
Here to help
Edited 2013/3/01 Forum member Nooby raises a concern that he believes the intent of the title implies the runinng of all aftermarket programs and services that can be added to Microsoft or Apple. So the 1st main paragraph of this document intends to shed light as to how these PUPs compare with Vendor OSes. The thread was put together to highlight the additional features which are missing in Puppyland distros in an OOTB experience. The distro that are mentioned have a current SAMBA component sucht that the OOTB experience from the distro mentiond are equivlent LAN PC with matchings services and functionality.
Hopefully, this satisfies his concern.
The text, enclosed in this post, is both an Announcement and an Appeal to our community.
Announcement
THE PUPPY that does Everything that a Microsoft PC or an Apple PC does without the need to install anything. These system deliver an Out-Of-The-Box (OOTB) experience that provides LAN services and shareing along with its traditional desktop user services, that is equivalent to what is found in Mocrosoft and Apple desktop laptop PCs systems.
I have been around in the Puppy forum community since 2005. I am not a distro builder. Nor am I a applications developer. This community has great, great people who do wonderful jobs at that to the benefit of all of us.
Puppy has been maturing a lot over the years. Much thanks goes to this forum community members who have contributed immensely in what it has become.
In its start, there were many still running 486s. Today, almost all new members are arriving in Puppyland equipped with P4s at a minimum and many are running much, much, much faster PCs. When Puppy started it was addressing PC of 128NB+. Today, no new member that I have witnessed has entered Puppyland with such small memory size such that most, if not all come here with 1GB+ RAM.
In an initial effort to run such a small OS on such a small RAM platform over such a small link to the internet, Puppy had to take some very clever steps to meet those PC sizes. Today, some PUPs are evolving as they mature to reach the PCs that are in existence since 2006 to now. Further, many older PCs dating back to 2000 can benefit by added RAM which many members have done cheaply. (I have a P4 with 4GB of PAM, for example)
Everything that a Microsoft-Apple PC does without the need to install anything.
I have been running the LightHouse distros for several years. It was created by one of our community members who has fallen ill. I hope its not a terminal illness, but in his last message to us it appears to be grave. He and I had corresponded over his achievements in Puppyland since before his 32bit Lighthouse502 distro. He has always been a great guiding light during his 32bit development in 502 and 503. After completion of 503, in discussion on RAM in the forum, his attention turned from the 32bit series of Lighthouse progressions to 64bit. His distros for unique and blazing in the scope he brought to the 64bit community. It wasn't just another distro, it was "over the top" in its design, offering, product mix, boot process for initial ISO system usage (Live/Frugal/Full), a complete single screen localization effort at initial and subsequent use, a unique update tool, straight-forward desktop layout and Menu selections, along with an ability to address 32bit Window apps should a need exist. One of my LightHouse platforms has NOT been rebooted since I did an initial save-session to "contain' all or those used to create my desktop workspace. Its blazing fast and just runs and runs and runs.
In his latest version 5.14, he made a "Christmas Present to all of us" as he released a version that allows any device received at Christmas (or earlier) which talks to Microsoft/Apple, to share and use items with LightHouse64. This among other nifty items is one of the greatest contribution from an OOTB distro ever produced in our community.
I think each and everyone of us can appreciate that this is a Herculean feat. For we have someone with failing health cobble together one of the greatest achievements this community has ever witnessed. An OOTB COMPLETE REPLACEMENT FOR MICROSOFT/APPLE and you don't even has to install it because you can run it from your Live media (CD/DVD) saving your work to the Live media as you go.
Here's where our community can help itself and help ths member out. Since his health is failing, we can assist in several areas:
- Provide coverage of his LightHouse distro (versions 5.03, the 32bit and versions 5.14, the 64bit) while he is struggling to recover.
- We could anticipate that our help may mean to attempt recreation to carry-on his work his latest and greatest achievement
I have some personal reasons for the desire (or need) to run a RAM based OS on any PC. This goes back to my days of DOS in the beginning, to OS2, to Citrix to Knoppix to Puppy to one other newer distro which also is pushing for recognition. This grew out of a mainframe design spec I wrote over 31 years ago (not publicly published). Then, in the subsequent years, I was able to test this and bring it to implementation on several of the production mainframes of that era demonstrating significant opening of windows for workload management and increased transaction rates.
There is no doubt, today, that properly designed RAM based systems provides ample room for additions, expansions, and use. This is very clear to all vendors, today, who build hand-held products. These "real-time" systems will only continue to become the diections for business and consumer, alike. In fact, there never was a view in business of consumers. There is "Business"; the notion of consumers is really one of the business models that businesses approach. This is because products are a universal tool that merely expands in the audience who find use for it. And we see this over and over again in the technology arenas.
Lighhouse64 is a distro that has been designed from the "ground-up" to be a Linux RAM based system which, OOTB, does EVERYTHING you get from a Microsoft-Apple PC. .... Everything!
Further, my most personal of reasons is the humanitarian side that says if we can helps someone who may have fallen, lets pick and continue as a tribute to what has been provided for our stability and comfort. Let's do it to help a fellow comrade in a way which doesn't take anything from any of us.
in looking at his last message to the forum, he was humble and apologetic for his deteriorating condition. But he left us with a gem, that I think this community might be able to support and extend.
If you have a 64bit PC and you haven't looked at this, you may be thrilled, should you. I encourage anyone new to Puppy or Lighthouse64 to start with Mariner, for it is the most comprehensive in its deliver. If you are like me and others, you may notice that you'll never have needed to install anything to use an office suite, an Internet suite, and all the other items that OOTB you get from Microsoft-Apple.
And if you can help in any way, please do what you can such that this effort continues to push Puppy maturity forward for everyone.
My thanks goes out to TaZoC and my well wishes continue to be sent. And thanks in advance for anything anyone of us can do to help on the forum with LightHouse64 Mariner
Here to help
Edited 2013/3/01 Forum member Nooby raises a concern that he believes the intent of the title implies the runinng of all aftermarket programs and services that can be added to Microsoft or Apple. So the 1st main paragraph of this document intends to shed light as to how these PUPs compare with Vendor OSes. The thread was put together to highlight the additional features which are missing in Puppyland distros in an OOTB experience. The distro that are mentioned have a current SAMBA component sucht that the OOTB experience from the distro mentiond are equivlent LAN PC with matchings services and functionality.
Hopefully, this satisfies his concern.