But, the reality of this is that life as we knew it, is and has changed.
Last year, 2014, as reported by public groups the likes of Gartner, IDC, etc saw a year where IT spending increased while PC shipments decreased, I wont go into the reasons as many in this forum are rashly opposed to change and any hint of it. But, they, too are already on-board with "change" as their family, friends, community, workplace and brethrens has already adopted the very things that are our now and our future,
In our own homes, we are finding useful ways of adding technology with the intent to make our lives easier. There is all sorts of discussions in this very forum of new and exciting changes addressing use of these. And, it NOT just physical additions as much new and interesting changes have even occurred in desktop, apps, browsers, subsystems all settling into a what "use to be" future concepts.
Puppy has past the stage of maturing, as it now is moving into evolving!
Much of the developers here and those coming here, now, are bringing "new and fresh" information that is finding its way to Puppy membership.
Yes, men and women, we are a part of a new generation which is shedding its past restrictive skins to a new use of CPU, RAM, LAN, peripherals, that aims to put functionality to the already existing speed we have enjoyed for so long in Puppyland.
Its not a new year as it is a "new look" at what we are now doing with the internal maturity of what has already been accomplished by this very Puppy development community. Puppy is NO LONGER A DESKTOP, it has now begun its move to an ENABLER to our membership community! An ENABLER who provides more than just a desktop to a single person. It now enables use beyond the simple desktop perception we started and had as our past.
And, its now time that we begin to look at our PUPs for what it can do for us in our homes beyond what it has done for us on a SINGLE DESKTOP since 2005. Its already happening and we, by our nature of purchases and acquaintances, are the primary contributers of this ENABLING.
The biggest change that will affect all of us in the understanding of all this data that we have in our homes and what we, as a community, need to embrace in its use. Currently, we are underestimating data, as we are muchly focused on video. But, there is much much more information occurring and about to occur in our homes, personal devices and travel units (cars) from the smartDevice and technology additions in the inevitable. You and I will be forced to begin to look at this information which is
- at hand happening in our personal devices,
- at what of that we keep and
- what of that we continue to allow to fall out of our hands.
Puppy Linux developers and its users, by the very nature of understanding these, becomes attractive to the larger community who will venture into and stay in the kennel. None of what is shared, herein, is new news to any of us; what is new, though, is that it is now being articulated and our acknowledgement of it.
2015 is not just a New Year, its a continuation as Puppy evolves. For even our "Fearless Leader" has now moved to "64bit understanding and builds" as he subtly positions this community for its directional continuation.
This is PUPPY and PUPPYLAND!