There has been talk about 4.2 and now could be the time to talk about 5.0
These are just ideas off that I received from members of the forum.
Puppy was and is Barry's baby that he nurtured and raised to stand on its on own feet. With that said it could be time for a change to show the world eg distrowatch and other software reviewers that we can and will make it on our own.
We need 1 developer to step and and take over building the base, ASAP! I'm getting that response from users and developers. If we do not have someone who is capable or has time to do it, we could advertise at places like distrowatch.
Puppy 5.0 should follow what barry is planning, which is to have it compatible with a big brother distro and his pick is the same as mine "Ubuntu Intrepid" If we could adapt our package manager to use Ubuntu Intrepid repo that would be excellent. No fuss no muss
Keep it under 100MB
This might be the only time that could use Firefox 2.17 the latest release which came out maybe 2 weeks ago. Since the 3.0 series is problematic for puppy and probably won't ever be used in puppy main release, It would really give use some great reviews. Plus it works very well with puppy.
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Gxine has had issues ever since the 3.0 series and needs to be changed, I have proven that VLC takes lower resources, I've even made a 4-5 MB QT4 version but it has issues that I'm working on, It would be nice if we had a team of developers to work on 1 large project like VLC, I had 41 pet packages I compiled up to build it. Talk about devotion, Plus I have compiling issues with ffmpeg and could use some help.
The default Calculators need to be axed and replaced with the linux norm "Galculator" and keep gmeasures
The Control Panel that was started and never finished needs to restarted and finished
The Networking and Wifi needs continuous updates, maybe some sort of puppy live update system could be built with a revert back option.
More screen resolutions needed to be add for newer tiny pc's
Maybe 2 versions of puppy xorg with mesa for newer pc's and xvesa for older pc's
Have a look at our libs like sdl Libs, they are really tiny why not included them? maybe some other small libs.What I was thinking is that if we are staying under 100mb and the release is 92MB why not add in Gimp and Inkscape and maybe some filler libs? and bring it up to 99 or 100MB?
Maybe for this release remove JWM and replace it with a lite icewm package, maybe the one I made up for 4.0 it also replaces 86 default icons and its only 2mb and if you take in the icons its actually and jwm replacing its like less than 1mb extra. I also have some unreleased themes that I made up for my next Living water but I'm willing to donate them to the cause, around 240kb each theme
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Well what do you feel/think?
Really we wouldn't need a coordinator or anything if we had some guide rules,
like forum votes
release schedules
1 dedicated base builder/developer who has ample time to devote
package providers
There has been a lot of views and ideas in the other threads, what we need more of is actions speak louder than words.
First and mostly we need a base developer who wants to take it on? any takers ?? You'll be famous, a real star in the community
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