On 05/22/2018 03:40 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > Dear all, > > I've been thinking for sometime now .. the deep and core idea of > ToriOS project is to offer the minimal working system with GUI for > users with very old machines. Your definition of "old machines" may > vary and be different though but that should not disagree with the > fact that ToriOS is actually designed mainly for old computers and it > can also be installed on a new machine. > > Giving the fact that ToriOS has the minimal set of software/packages, > it made me think about: > > Why not we offer A NEW SPIN/VERSION for the web? > > Allow me to elaborate. > Many basic or light users are only using their machines for browsing > the web, sending emails, Google Drive maybe, YouTube, Facebook, etc. > That said, how about we give them ToriOS with a NEW flavour? a flavour > that's designed ONLY for websites? > > What could help is: we don't have to include ANY extra package. Only > the MAIN and the most important packages that will make ToriOS works + > one main browser (/we can vote for that or ask the community to vote > to choose their favourite browser/) + a list of browsers the users can > choose from to install right after they install ToriOS successfully on > their machines. Nothing else, nothing more. > > An OS designed for old machines to make them a web-browsing-machines. > That's all. > > As you know, the problem nowadays is: > Websites are more resource hungry. They need more machine power to > work. If we can reduce the effort that a machine can put on its OS, > we'll save some extra power/resource for the website. Yes, let's be > super honest here .. I am NOT talking about a machine with 256MB of > RAM as these machines can't even handle Google homepage. I'm talking > about a bit more powerful machines. A machine that can handle popular > websites. > > Maybe ToriOS.web won't be purely for old machines. It will be only for > a machine that will be used as a web browser, period. Nothing more and > nothing else. > > If someone needs to use ToriOS for multi purposes, then he/she can > simply use ToriOS, the original and the main flavour. > > If someone needs only a web browsing machine, ToriOS.web will be the > best option. He/She doesn't have to worry about ant-virus and crap > like that. They're already using the most powerful anti-virus in the > world, that's the Linux kernel. > > I'm going to share this on our media channels. Let's see what our > users think about this. > > Meanwhile, I'll be waiting for your feedback. > > It would be great if we can find someone who is interested in this > idea, jump in and help to make it happen. That would be amazing :D > > Thank you and keep up the great spirit! > > > -- > Remember: "All of us are smarter than any one of us." > > Best Regards, > Ali/amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad> > > Hi Ali,
So, I think you do mean a kiosk (like Nio asked). This is a good idea, and would be pretty easy. The one issue I see, is that the user could not download files and use them outside of their own computer without technical expertise. They could not mount their phone and transfer files either. Without a panel up top (or on bottom), it would be hard to perform something basic like the network connection management, unless they are using a wired connection. Then there would also be no window management, if it was 'just a web browser' so you could not open a new window for web pages. I do like the idea, and we could ship a smaller version of ToriOS which is not customizable via the GUI, has no extra Apps, and has only 2 buttons, no extra desktops and would automatically start the web browser in fullscreen mode/or whatever. I think this is an idea that would take a lot of consideration -- Regards
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