Desktop CDs: Around 60 MB saved on the installed system, 28 MB in binary packages

2010-08-11 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, the Google Summer of Code 2010 is over and the only student working for OpenPrinting, Vitor Baptista from Brazil, was successful with the project of effectively compressing PPDs for PostScript printers which are physically residing on the system. I have made use of this software now in the

Re: Desktop CDs: Around 60 MB saved on the installed system, 28 MB in binary packages

2010-08-11 Thread sam tygier
On 11/08/10 18:50, Till Kamppeter wrote: > So on the running system of the Desktop CD 31 MB get saved which can be > used for other useful things. i suggest that some of the space is used for poppler-data[0] which is needed[1,2] to display PDFs with eastern fonts (this is latin characters in so

Maverick Alpha3 +nvidia-96 +updates

2010-08-11 Thread NoOp
Loaded up Maverick Alpha3 a simple test 32bit machine (Intel Motherboard 1Ghz/348Mb) with an nVidia NV25GL [Quadro4 900 XGL] card. All working well; get notification for a driver is available (nvidia-96), install the driver via jockey, reboot, got to System|Preferences|Appearance|Visual Effects|cli

Re: Desktop CDs: Around 60 MB saved on the installed system, 28 MB in binary packages

2010-08-11 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Till, Till Kamppeter [2010-08-11 19:50 +0200]: > the Google Summer of Code 2010 is over and the only student working > for OpenPrinting, Vitor Baptista from Brazil, was successful with > the project of effectively compressing PPDs for PostScript printers > which are physically residing on th

Re: Desktop CDs: Around 60 MB saved on the installed system, 28 MB in binary packages

2010-08-11 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 08/12/2010 07:04 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: >> Binary Package *.deb file installed system >> >> openprinting-ppds ~4 MB ~5 MB >> openprinting-ppds-extra~18 MB ~28 MB

Re: Desktop CDs: Around 60 MB saved on the installed system, 28 MB in binary packages

2010-08-11 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Till, Till Kamppeter [2010-08-12 8:22 +0200]: > Why does it add 15 MB? Because I can't read numbers properly. (sorry..) Wow, this is an amazing reduction! You introduced 8 MB of savings, so you are of course very entitled to put back 1.5 MB :) so please go ahead. Thanks! Martin -- Ma