<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">John C. McCabe-Dansted</b> <<a href="mailto:gmatht@gmail.com">gmatht@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 16:40, Matt Zimmerman wrote:<br>> However, we don't currently have support for 7zip in .debs, so among the<br>> available compression methods, bzip2 seems to outperform gzip on the<br>> language packs.
<br><br>One thing to consider before changing to bzip2 is that, e.g. on my p4 1.5 Ghz,<br>it takes about 3sec/MB to decompress a bz2 file. Wide usuage of bz2 files on<br>the official CD could significantly increase the required install time on
<br>older machines.<br>
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I'm also a user of older machines (I have installed Ubuntu on several
Celeron 300 & 650 MHz, to give these machines some extra life). My
own experience tells me that slower decompression isn't as big a factor
as the slower download time -- not only when installing but also when
upgrading the system. Also, keep in mind that slow machines aren't
usually that fast at seeking & reading from the CD either.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Carlos Ribeiro<br>Consultoria em Projetos<br>blog: <a href="http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com">http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com</a>
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