One thing I have always liked about Puppy is that BarryK thought things through when he began it.

In trying to prepare the K-Office sfs files, I corresponded with several K-Office developers through their mailing list. Here is a summary of those discussions. First, I had a problem communicating what I was after, a "stand-alone" version of K-Office. A couple of developers stated that K-Office was *already* stand-alone.

Current users of Puppy will easily recognize future puppy. Just like now, Puppy 7 (or whatever) will install correctly on a wide variety of hardware configurations (the widest variety of any distro). And just like now, future puppy will install in a wide variety of ways, Live-CD, frugal hard disk, usb stick, and so forth. Also just like now, the Puppy interface will be friendly, fun, and fast, making use of traditional gui elements to create an interface that anyone can just sit down and use.

When someone logs onto future puppy they should get a choice of two desktops; one is the future version of the current desktop and the second is a "sports" desktop that embodies the spirit of puppy, minimal, fast, functional, lean, responsive, and fun and the spirit of linux, hands-on, configurable, and so forth. This second one is not a copy of windows or mac or kde or anything else, it should be uniquely puppy, arising out of the spirit of puppy and the puppy community.

I want to try to articulate my experience of Puppy--why it was that I felt I had found my home--and what if anything that might contribute to shaping a possible future Puppy.   I responded immediately to the speed.  Puppy was fast.  In theoretical terms I would say "responsive."  I think that is hugely important.  It contributes I think to the sense of using a fine tool or of driving a sports car rather than a bus.