Precise Puppy 5.4.2

I was touting this as a bug-fix-of-a-bug-fix release, however it has significant changes at the Woof-level, so I have bumped the version number from 5.4.1 to 5.4.2. The previous releases (5.4.1 and 5.4.1-retro) were announced here:
http://bkhome.org/archive/blog2/201211/precise-puppy-541.html
http://bkhome.org/archive/blog2/201211/retro-precise-puppy-541.html

Here are the Release Notes for 5.4.2:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/precise-5.4.2/release-Precise-5.4.2.htm

Download 5.4.2:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/precise-5.4.2/

For 5.4.2-retro, please read the README file before considering to download:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/precise-5.4.2-retro/precise-5.4.2-retro-README.htm
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/precise-5.4.2-retro/

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Comments

Precise 5.4.2 feedback
Username: BarryK
Forum thread for feedback: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=668041#668041

Precise 5.4.2 feedback
Username: BarryK
"Forum thread for feedback: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=668041#668041

Small is beautiful
Username: Sage
"retro version is paramount for my activities and very welcome. Would be great if a reduced retro could be available; think you had considered this in an earlier blog? 200M .iso is just too heavy. Something like elroy's lina-lite would be ideal, esp. if it included a text panel how-to about adding one's personal choices from the PPM.

precise542torrent for the naughty
Username: aarf
"this is for all you naughty people who dont know how or refuse to use deltas precise542 torrent with webseeds: http://www.datafilehost.com/download-f65143f6.html made with mktorrent (search it) in near current slacko. how to use delta: download the delta into the same directory as the old file, click the delta, click generate, wait for green sucess message. that it two clicks and the check the md5sum. does precise542 work on my machine? dont ask silly questions, of course not. ha ha ha.

Re delta files
Username: BarryK
"aarf, Yes, that is a regular question, how to use a delta file? Online, you will see the directory "delta_files", and the naming of the files should tell you what they do. Just download a delta file, then, as aarf says, just click on it. Or, you can start from the menu: [i]Menu -> Utility -> Xdelta file difference manager[/i] ...then, it is just a matter of drag-and-drop of the old .iso file and the delta file. The Xdelta app also has a 'Help' button with further explanation. This presupposes that you have previously downloaded versions 5.4 or 5.4.1 of Precise Puppy.

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