Yes, goals of OSS are great.But when it comes to choice "Windows or Ubuntu" I do prefer to see Ubuntu on user's desktop.And "proprietary" is kinda relative. If USA does has stupid patent laws why those who do not have such moron laws should be restricted to USA level?It is ABSOLUTELY LEGAL and COSTS NOTHING to use MP3, MP4, ... in many countries where software patents are missing.So "proprietary" codecs can comply with GPL, etc.Of course it is a good idea to promote free formats.But when it comes to choice "can I listen my MP3 collection on this system?" user can drop the system and not an MP3 collection and prefer system that can play MP3s.Did you considered this scenario?
As for LZMA... LZMA is still LZ-based algo so it is _very_ fast in decompress (comparable if not faster than gzip).In fact even small embedded devices can decrunch LZMA in real time.There is bunch of routers, etc who uses LZMA to squeeze sizes of Linux kernel and file system.Once even small router with some 200MHz CPU and 8-16Mb RAM can deal with LZMA decompression it is srtange to hear it is too heavy for PC.No, it is not.Of course you do not have to use LZMA with huge dictionary sizes.Really.But nobody will anyway, since compression with huge dictionary requires LOTS of RAM and slower.Actually LZ-based algos are hard when it comes to compress something but pretty lightweight at decompression.So, even antique PCs will be able to decompress LZMA and they do not have to compress anything. -- Ideal packages management system\installed.Everyone can dream, right? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137190 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
