Proposal for solving CD Size problems

[Krzysztof Lichota]

Scott James Remnant napisał(a):
> On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 10:51 +0200, Mgr. Peter Tuharsky wrote:
> 
>> -let's first use the CD's capabilities to the full extent, by using lzma 
>> or better gzip. Thus gain some 70-100MB of extra space for cost of small 
>> or even unnoticed performance hit, that would only have impact on Live 
>> usage anyway.
>>  
> I've done some tests with this; the results aren't great:
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 599M 2006-09-27 20:23 filesystem.squashfs_gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 552M 2006-09-27 20:37 filesystem.squashfs_7z
> 
> 
> The saving is under 8%, and the performance hit is extremely noticeable
> (at least within VMware), it takes almost twice the time to boot.

On slower machines boot takes about 4 minutes currently. Making it 8
minutes would render them unusable.

As I was told removing all Windows programs is not feasible, maybe
removing some of them would help.

Here is the listing of sizes of apps on CD:
4,9M    programs/firefox
5,5M    programs/kdepim
17M     programs/kexi
18M     programs/scribus
3,9M    programs/speedcrunch
6,1M    programs/thunderbird

I think Scribus is not an app which is often used by "average" user, so
it wouldn't hurt to remove it. If space is tight, Kexi could also be
removed (although I think it is pretty nice software and might attract
some developers).
Together they make 35 MB of space. It is pretty much :)

Maybe a survey for Windows users would help decide whether at all anyone
tries Scribus/Kexi before trying Ubuntu.

	Krzysztof Lichota


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