Re: LiveCD optimisations

2010-05-22 Thread Louis Simard
At 2010-05-21 04:41 GMT, Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com wrote: Are there no more things that could be optimised? For instance does using xmllint with --noblanks on the 12496 xml files save any space? My testing with XML files is done now, and here are the results! (And the modified script,

Re: LiveCD optimisations

2010-05-22 Thread Didier Roche
Le samedi 22 mai 2010 à 04:31 -0400, Louis Simard a écrit : At 2010-05-21 04:41 GMT, Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com wrote: Are there no more things that could be optimised? For instance does using xmllint with --noblanks on the 12496 xml files save any space? My testing with XML files is

Re: LiveCD optimisations

2010-05-22 Thread Louis Simard
At 2010-05-22 09:06 GMT, Didier Roche didro...@ubuntu.com wrote: (is 0.79 MB containing the whole optimization or just the xml one?) [snip] Not sure it worths the risk if the real size gain in the iso is only 0.79 MB. 0.79 MB (on the squashfs) is for XML files only, and is HIGHLY error-prone

Re: LiveCD optimisations

2010-05-22 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 22 May 2010 09:31, Louis Simard louis.sim...@gmail.com wrote: HOWEVER: The optimisations made card games (Klondike etc.) unplayable, as no cards appear, due to the change in /usr/share/gnome-games-common/cards/gnomangelo_bitmap.svg. Gbrainy started crashing when a new game of verbal

Re: LiveCD optimisations

2010-05-22 Thread MÁTÉ Gergely
2010-05-21 02:35 keltezéssel, Louis Simard írta: Optimising the CD to put files at the end allows it to boot marginally faster (about 10 seconds on my benchmarks), start applications faster, and allows the CD drive on a user's computer to run quieter while using his/her applications, as

Re: LiveCD optimisations

2010-05-22 Thread Louis Simard
At 2010-05-22 10:59 GMT, Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@ubuntu.com wrote: Is it due to them using GMarkup instead of libxml to parse XML's? I yes it's a bug in glib then =) i would be cool to compress xml's as much as possible. Afterall people should be getting the source packages to edit