Re: LiveCD optimisations

2010-11-01 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Hi Martin, I intended to send the following to lyx-devel, but my dog ate it. Louis has mentioned AdvanceCOMP, but I thought you might find the summary below useful. I think that the figures may be out by about 30%, possibly do to squashfs doing some form of intra-file de-duplication, but I hope it

Re: LiveCD optimisations

2010-11-01 Thread Louis Simard
Hi Martin, Thanks for the notification. While you're working on PNG optimisations in the build scripts, I have something to ask you. There has been discussion on the "More LiveCD space optimisations" thread [1] of using AdvanceCOMP to further reduce the size of PNG files (even after OptiPNG, PNG

Re: LiveCD optimisations

2010-11-01 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Louis, Louis Simard [2010-05-20 20:35 -0400]: > Optimising the PNG images saves 5.5 MB on the filesystem.squashfs. For the record, I just uploaded a new pkgbinarymangler to natty which now calls optipng on PNG files, as part of https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/performance-deskt

Re: Mainstream Developers Repository

2010-11-01 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Saturday, October 30, 2010 02:35:21 pm Usama Akkad wrote: > Wa alaikum alsalam, > Bilal this is different from backports. for example Filezilla and Deluge > have no problem have more recent release on windows than Linux. You > already trust the developers of such applications. Why not help them