From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 Subject: Re: Iso image size Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 09:07:58 +0000 Message-ID: <20171208090758.vshpx7337mhd765y@abyayala> References: <20171208083744.tstydd574siv5ik4@abyayala> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3j4vlmvooyldx3q6" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47784) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eNEdm-0002PA-Gi for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2017 04:08:19 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eNEdh-0004qM-Hu for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2017 04:08:18 -0500 Received: from aibo.runbox.com ([91.220.196.211]:52266) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eNEdh-0004pb-7k for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2017 04:08:13 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171208083744.tstydd574siv5ik4@abyayala> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?utf-8?B?R8OhYm9y?= Boskovits , Guix-devel --3j4vlmvooyldx3q6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ng0 transcribed 2.2K bytes: > G=C3=A1bor Boskovits transcribed 1.3K bytes: > > I don't know what we are currently doing to get the installer iso image > > sized down, but I caught some discussion yesterday on irc, that the ima= ge > > is actually very well compressible, and checking the sizes it really is. > >=20 > > Might that be possible to do something like compressing the root filesy= stem > > image on the iso image, and decompress it from initrd before mounting? > >=20 > > Or do we already do that? > >=20 > > It might worth consideration, if that makes the image fit onto a CD. >=20 > Are there any reasons why we should really consider CDs a target > in 2017-almost-2018? I do understand the need to keep the image small. Despite what public image wants to sell about the region I'm living in, the download speed still sucks (I'm personally on ADSL 1600). I think we should take size in consideration for people who don't have the benefit of flatrate internet connections or even DSL connections. Personally I think we could take 4GB as a limit, that's the smallest size of USB Disks you can get these days. Unless there are computers without USB (I got rid of one last year) that would have a CD drive instead. Options, choices.. difficult to serve everyone right. > I threw away around 500 CDs + 100 floppy disks with backup data of the > last 20 years quiet recently (and only kept originals). > All I'm getting here (West Germany) are BluRays and similar opticals. > And I predict that even this will go away in the near future. >=20 > So why focus on the artifical size of optical disks, especially a > format that has been considered old by most if not all other distros > above the size of tiny distros? >=20 > If this may sound like harsh criticism: I'm only curious. > --=20 > GnuPG: A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588 > GnuPG: https://c.n0.is/ng0_pubkeys/tree/keys > WWW: https://n0.is --=20 GnuPG: A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588 GnuPG: https://c.n0.is/ng0_pubkeys/tree/keys WWW: https://n0.is --3j4vlmvooyldx3q6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEEqIyK3RKYKNfqwC5S4i+bv+40hYgFAloqVm4ACgkQ4i+bv+40 hYi+VxAAsvBUFnRnOGAfa95PdyfdWYycBwEE3EbZQ6H9cw4bGXPgMVn+4X7B+3pS HC4beLI0BNBOHd7xg/aS1F8AkzaUjrVvEjOfMRU6Wzc2H2oPedSf268fXsRX7ohc m3X0KX4NKGk68Bh18q9BVdJgbyQrLvV++OHqd+YfhHBNn5RSLCrEe1ovyoaVhtAW QbDskTzVHgenvPjlpSIMGaXzg3DK1GcxPKXD6Q2VGoHaMyibedPBqVIaDdVU+S5D 5U2JOBhN6WcKz797pex9ogzKZvhbqz+ws0gpHl5Pmf+RVPC3Kj1ShXFX8xKL8pHV sCnjwCArM5O1/Ut8thjSrcbNut6XiOxlxieqkTWczdL+fB5vuZDxRiODgimVayTR xegyZ7XJAC7+q4aUD/3JBdNvyUg4EN0L2ASx2iUwzTnXQcjUXcv0frTWv+mz8xoV UterOoz2g0M68nqv5cpfam+MEbVoQT6a/YW2RpnBR+P1YCfdix34IYR2PFn/B07c CgnEhIjw6Rg5wS5BKoea6DRM3EHrd+hizbXqgW7W1wQfwg//nFfaNhMjuenGYDfK jQoM6QTKuXz0dqboKGTlHfoINy8QqRTI+Wf1pQsDDdPPFjDPOTsgn2BzYZhADA8x oQh5uoOpHVl6mYNXermGBRZXgFMt9xVIKNKlkIz9WvMKnQvunks= =dQPH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3j4vlmvooyldx3q6--