Hi Phill, Do you mean to have a choice in a screen (made with the dialog software package), or do you mean to focus on xz for high compression, and let it be slower? (xz need more RAM than gzip, but *not* too much.)
Best regards Nio On 2013-10-28 18:07, Phill Whiteside wrote: > Hi Federico and Nio, > > That makes sense to me :) > > Regards, > > Phill. > > > > On 28 October 2013 16:44, Federico Leoni <effe...@gmail.com > <mailto:effe...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > 2013/10/28 Nio Wiklund <nio.wikl...@gmail.com > <mailto: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. > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > lubuntu-us...@lists.ubuntu.com <mailto:lubuntu-us...@lists.ubuntu.com> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > > > > > -- > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw -- 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
