On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Brian Smith <brian at briansmith.org> wrote: > I noticed that the "All Languages" images are smaller than the "Primary > Languages" images. > > 1. Why do you offer the "primary languages" images? Is there any advantage > to them? > > 2. Why don't you use LZMA compression for the "Primary Languages" CD to > improve download times? >
It is a balance between amount of software in the CD and decompression performance. LZMA decompression is a heavy-hitter on the CPU and is only suitable for well-endowed machines otherwise there are performance issues and install can take ages maxing out CPUs for the entire duration. So this option of gzip is provided. > Primary Languages CD, gzip compression, 687M > All Languages CD, LZMA compression, 639M > > Primary Languages USB, gzip compression, 824M > All Languages USB, LZMA compression, 767M > Uncompressed size of the LZMA image will be much larger than uncompressed size of the Gzip image in both cases. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
