Well, I would like a 1 Bone Puppy command line puppy that boots and finds CD and the internet, then walks through a text menu of check boxes of each and every little subcomponent.
1. Boots Up
2. Presents Menu Listing
3. You make your selections
4. That, and only that loads up.
5. Burn a new CD or install to hard drive / USB flash drive.
Done, just what the USER wants.
Each Subcomponent should have 2 - 4 sentences describing what the component does.
Then Even a newbie can 'Build his own' Puppy.
Items would be grouped:
Graphics, Windows Manager, Command Line Tools, Sound, Multimedia, Applications.
Once the user has gone down the list, the selections are all loaded up, ready to run, or burns to a new .iso live CD, or ready to install into a USB key drive or hard drive. All the extra stuff left out.
All the packages can come from the Bigger Base CD image, or download from the internet.
I'd like this in order to build 'custom' puppies - just plays music, no web browser, no graphics editor, no email, etc. Just for DVDs, Just for Graphics. Remove the ability to Add new packages for educational workstations, Etc.
This would empower puppy for many new users, who want to build a super small install without any extra space wasted. Hopefully it would shrink size and increase speed for some uses, since less storage and less ram would be used.
Super easy to use - because of the better explanations of what all those little packages are... just arrow, spacebar, and enter (point and click with the keyboard, text menu first, no mouse support / GUI at first startup.)
What do you think?