Greetings ubuntu-devel-discuss :)
I have a proposal for you, and I'll present it simply with the 5 W's.
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Optimise the PNG images and SVG files on the Ubuntu LiveCD.
Optimise the Ubuntu LiveCD by putting start-up files and programs near
the end of the CD.
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Optimising the PN
At 2010-05-21 04:41 GMT, Martin Owens wrote:
> Hey Louis,
Hey Martin, thanks for the reply!
> Sounds great and looks like a pretty good script, I have some comments:
>
> You may be able to make it a little faster by using the find results in
> one like like this:
>
> find / -type f -name "*.svg"
At 2001-05-21 14:48 GMT, Phillip Susi wrote:
> When attaching scripts please make sure they are attached with an inline
> disposition so they are readily reviewable while reading the email
> instead of having to save them and open them in another text editor.
Err... While I know what you want me
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
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
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
to
another mailing list, like ubuntu-devel or debian-devel?
Regards,
- Louis
[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2010-May/thread.html
[2] https://code.launchpad.net/~louis-simard/scour/rework
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At 2010-07-15 21:57 GMT, I wrote:
>> If I add the following permission in the file
>> /etc/tomcat6/policy.d/50local.policy, everything's fine:
>>
>> grant codeBase "file:${catalina.base}/webapps/mywebapp/-" {
>> permission java.security.A
At 2010-07-15 22:25 GMT, Florent Georges wrote:
> Louis Simard wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> Would this do the trick:
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
>> permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "getClassLoader";
>> permission java.lang.RuntimePermission &
At 2010-07-20 14:19 GMT, aakash pandey wrote:
> I need a non brown ambiance theme with full black panels .
This question looks completely off-topic for the ubuntu-devel list.
You should ask it on ubuntu-users instead.
Regards,
Louis
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At 2010-08-13 08:39 GMT, Joshua Timberman wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Aug 13, 2010, at 12:37 AM, Micah Gersten wrote:
>
>> Because sensible defaults are necessary. You get your choice of Apache
>> or something else. If you selected another httpd on install and php5
>> dragged in apache, that might qu
GMT John McCabe-Dansted :
> In May, Louis Simard proposed rencoding PNG files and SVG files to
> reduce their size [Quoted 1]. I note that we can save further space by:
>
> 1) Using advdef on the png files in addition to optipng. This is what
> optimizegraphics does, and this shrin
2010-10-07 16:29 GMT Martin Owens :
> On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 00:07 +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
>> Strangely, even running advzip -z -0
>> images_human.zip shrinks it by 3%, and even shrinks the corresponding
>> images_human.zip.gz file
>
> That's not strange, that's just entropic packing princ
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you have time.
2010-10-07 16:07 GMT John McCabe-Dansted :
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Louis Simard wrote:
>>
2010-10-08 09:54 GMT Matthias Klose :
> In the past we did see wasted space:
>
> - Packages which should not be on the CD. Some things should not be
> on the CD at all. Looking at the current live CD log, a typical
> candidate for this would be tcl8.4. Why is it there, and how can
> it be
2010-10-07 16:07 GMT John McCabe-Dansted :
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Louis Simard wrote:
>> Do you want me to add to my script any of the optimisations discussed
>> in your email? They are: Using AdvanceCOMP to recompress .png images
>> and gzipped files; using e
Apologies for the previous attachment, it didn't have the addition for
man-page symbolic links.
I attach the proper one this time.
- Louis
ubuntu-opt.tar.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data
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Sorry for the 4th post in a row, but I added a script that uses
AdvanceCOMP to recompress the .gz files that aren't man pages, and I
had to share my findings.
AdvanceCOMP? | ISO size (B) | Install (KiB)
No | 711,032,832 | 2,474,660
Yes |
. I'm the co-maintainer for Scour since
June 2010, but even if I can't do releases, I can commit to the trunk.
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