Right now TuxedOS is little more than an inspiration, a partially complete icon set and openSUSE. This is the answer I'd like to give to that question:
TuxedOS is a desktop computer platform curated from the best Free and Open Source software and hardware. Our aim is to make a user experience that is productive, aesthetic, secure, trouble-free and 100% Free and Open Source.
By drawing from the brilliant work of Free Software projects such as GNU/Linux, Mozilla Firefox, & LibreOffice (among many others) TuxedOS provides a complete out-of-the-box productivity solution for office or home.
This software will be optimized to run on the Tuxedo Reference Spec, a list of hardware components selected for its open source support, technological progress and economic value. In doing this, we narrow the focus of our platform allowing us to offer better service and performance, and also to provide a commercial home for open hardware projects.
While any computer following the Tuxedo Reference Spec will run TuxedOS, the best experience will be had by purchasing one of our built-to-order workstations preinstalled with TuxedOS. Purchasing these products will provide economic support for the organization's projects, as well as to popular upstream projects.
Additionally, we extensively dogfood our systems in our daily business giving us insight into the boots-on-the-ground effectiveness of our platform. We want our platform to be easy for any novice, without watering down advanced features.
TuxedOS is also a community. We are a for-profit hybrid cooperative. This means that our employees, board members and customers are all equals in making the guiding decisions that effect the platform, and that we all mutually benefit. This is a democratic arrangement that stomps out corporate schmuckery, empowers users to be involved in shaping the platform, and provides economic incentive to develop and maintain Free Software projects for the desktop.
This is what I'm working towards. This blog will document the progress of TuxedOS from what is now a hobby, to hopefully something bigger...
More information soon!
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