LiveCD optimisations

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 24 May 2010 10:33, Conrad Knauer <atheoi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Louis Simard <louis.simard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Optimising the PNG images saves 5.5 MB on the filesystem.squashfs.
>> Optimising the SVG files saves an additional 7 MB. This is a total of
>> 12.5 MB which could be used to pack more software or another language
>> pack or two onto the LiveCD.
>
> Speaking of saving space on the LiveCD, I note on
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/see-ya-f-spot-shotwell-comes-to-ubuntu.html
> that F-Spot is supposed to be bumped (in favor of Shotwell) for
> Maverick.  Does this mean that we can finally remove Mono now too?

No.

> (Tomboy can be replaced with Gnote; gBrainy can be replaced with some

Gnote is abandoned by the author and has less functionality then
Tomboy (less plugins, no ubuntuone integration etc.)

gBrainy ROCKS =)

> other game... it's not like there aren't lots to pick from :)  Anyone
> have an estimate of how much space would be saved by doing that?
>

No clue =) and to late for Maverick this should have been proposed as
a spec for UDS and discussed there.

ps. I would really want for gnome-do to get into default install ;-)

> CK
>