Precise Puppy alpha2

This is working great, using it right now!

Download from here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/test/precise-5.2.52-5.3alpha2/

Previous announcement, for alpha1:

There is one known issue:
ePDFView does not work, liblmcs2.so.2 is missing. To get this, run the Puppy Package Manager, choose the "ubuntu-main" repository, then type "liblcms2" into the search box.

Forum thread for feedback:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76961

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Comments

OSMO dependencies
Username: Terryphi
Can you please add missing libraries needed by Osmo in next build? Osmo complains about missing libtar.so.0 and libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0 (and maybe more.) Also, Leafpad is missing icon in menu.

Osmo deps
Username: BarryK
"Aaargh! Osmo can be precompile-configured to use either libgtkhtml (very small) or webkit (huge) to render HTML pages. Unfortunately, Ubuntu has chosen the latter. So, I have changed the Precise Puppy build to use one of my PETs. Note, I already had to do this for Abiword (use a PET), for the same reason, huge deps.

Helpsurfer HTML viewer
Username: BarryK
"As I have added libgtkhtml, needed by my Osmo PET, I have also added helpsurfer, a very small HTML viewer, that also uses libgtkhtml.

Helpsurfer
Username: BarryK
"Here is my earlier blog post introducing Helpsurfer: http://bkhome.org/archive/blog2/201005/help-surfer.html

More inspection in murga-thread
Username: pemasu
"http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=614980#614980 And the posts after that. There is also one important post about the 3.2.X kernel.

Download speed is getting slower
Username: leae89
"Yes; I'm having speed issues whilst downloading Puppy from ibiblio.org. I tried downloading from another server, and I get the same speed issue. Are the servers going down?

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