On 2013-10-28 17:44, Federico Leoni wrote: > 2013/10/28 Nio Wiklund <nio.wikl...@gmail.com>: >> Hi Federico, >> >> I'm glad that your system is portable via the tarball :-) >> >> OK, I was conservative, and kept the simple, fast and less memory-greedy >> gzip compression, but I listen to your advice, so I will prepare to make >> xz compression standard in the next version. I guess you know that xz is >> slower expanding (maybe 25%) and much slower compressing (it needs more >> than the double time), and you still want to because small size is >> highest priority? >> >> And thanks for the observation about the "Attempt to read or write >> outside of disk hd0" and PATA. >> >> Best regards >> Nio >> > > Well Nio, > > a small size on the usb drive it's better I think. but If you prefer > fast compression (and thinking about it should be the better choice > for old computers) at least you could add an advanced option to choose > the type of compression and the name of the tarball. > > Let me know. > > F. > It is possible already, when you exit to the bash shell, so maybe it is not urgent. I agree there should be choices in a dialog screen (compression method as well as the name of the target file.) I think also choice of source partition should be possible at that dialog screen.
I think the most urgent improvement is to make a Lubuntu 13.10 OEM tarball. Would you agree or where do you think I should start? Best regards Nio -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
