Re: LiveCD optimisations

2010-05-22 Thread Louis Simard
At 2010-05-22 10:59 GMT, Dmitrijs Ledkovs 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 those and apps should p

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 rea

Re: LiveCD optimisations

2010-05-22 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 22 May 2010 09:31, Louis Simard 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 analogies was started, due

Re: LiveCD optimisations

2010-05-22 Thread Louis Simard
At 2010-05-22 09:06 GMT, Didier Roche 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 due to applicati

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 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, an

Re: LiveCD optimisations

2010-05-22 Thread Louis Simard
At 2010-05-21 04:41 GMT, Martin Owens 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, attached to this ema