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I have recently began revamping our Puppy build. Recompiling the majority of applications found on the ISO as quite a few of the PETs are relatively ancient. As well there are many missing packages we find complimentary to the portable OS. I will post the PETs and latest ISO as soon as I find time.

…I have begun uploading the recompiled PETs. They can be found under the “Puppy Linux Pets” category in the Downloads section.

I finally made time to add the finishing touches to our Puplet aptly named sPCpup over the week end. The base image has been posted to the Downloads section.

I noticed a minor issue regarding the Wine menu and a missing icon. I have rebuilt the image with the fix included and uploaded to the Downloads section. I didn’t feel it was necessary to increment the ISO revision, so the image name remains the same. If you are running live and would like to manually fix this issue type the following from the command line:

cd /usr/share/desktop-directories; wget -O Puppy-Wine.directory http://slighpcs.com/downloads/puppy/spc431/Puppy-Wine-menu

Please feel free to post any comments or questions regarding PETs or Puppy Linux images here.

Sheesh… another issue with the wine pet was discovered… apparently I have got to slow down. Winetricks and all of the application symlinks were missed on the inclusion. I apologize for the inconvenience as you will need to uninstall/reinstall or simply reinstall over the top of the existing. The updated PET has be uploaded.

I have been working on compatibility fixes for the pets we have compiled… these fixes will be tested under the original Puppy Linux 4.3.1 as well as any other derivatives requested. I will post the fixes as they are completed, time permitting of course.

As per request, I have stripped 40-something packages from the original puplet over the past few days. Mind you, there is no huge significance in file size; 97.7MB as compared with the original image 102.1MB. Below is the list of packages removed.

Asunder, Bcrypt-file-encryption, Burniso2cd-burn-iso-file-to-CD-DVD, Epdfview, Galculator, Gcolor2, Getez, Gfontselect, GAdmin-Rsync, Gpicview, Gtkdialog-tex-markup-editor, Gtk-Hash, Hardinfo, Hiawatha, Htop, ISOMaster-iso-file-editor, MP-console-editor, MTR-Traceroute, Osmo, Pawdioconverter, Pbackup, Pdvdrsab, Petspec-pkg-db-generator, Pmirror, Pmwget, Pnethood, Pplog-blog, Pschedule, Ptimer, Pudd-copy-drive-partition, Pure_FTPd-FTP-server, Pwidgets, Quisp, Secure-ssh-telnet, Ssh-gui-secure-telnet, Transmission, Treesize, Xdelta-difference-manager, Xfburn-cd-edition, Xfdiff-cut, Xfmedia, Xine, and Zmixer-sound-mixer.

You can find the ISO listed as sPCpup-431-stripped in the Downloads section. I will also post the individual Pets as soon as I have some time.

A new release has been completed…

Introducing sPCpup-431-familiar, at just over 148MB, this ISO is packed with familiar applications to get most any job done efficiently and effectively.

Highlights include:

• Firefox v3.6.3,
• Filezilla v3.3.2.1
• Abiword v2.8.2
• Gnumeric v1.10.0
• Gimp v2.6.8
• Gparted v0.5.2
• ddrescue v1.12
• ClamAV v0.96
• ClamTk v4.25
• lameSMBxplorer v2.1.

You can find the ISO in the Linux section under Downloads.