Lunar-Linux ISO 1.7.0-dev

[Stefan Wold]

It's not optional. But the reason behind that move is that packages has
grown in size so much that they were hard to fit onto a CD-sized ISO. By
switching to .xz we were able to reduce the ISO size with 150-200Mb (and I
mean the uncompressed ISO). I'm not sure the actual compressed ISO benefit
much from .xz though however, so that could indeed remain .bz2, but optimal
would be not to compress them at all, just keep them as .iso.

Sincerely
Stefan


On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Jon South <striker at lunar-linux.org> wrote:

> I see no reason for xz to exist other than to require yet more utilities I
> don't want, nor need. I won't accept my logs being in xz format either, so
> that better be optional too. This isn't the 90's anymore with 28.8 modems
> and 500MB drives. I don't understand why we're being turned into a hipster
> distro... I haven't seen any other distro offering ISO's compressed with xz
> either.
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 3:41 AM, Jean-Michel Bruenn <
> jean.bruenn at ip-minds.de> wrote:
>
>> I'd also prefer the iso in gzip and bzip2.
>>
>> On Sat, 1 Jun 2013
>> 10:01:39 +0200 v4hn <v4hn at lunar-linux.org> wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:21:43PM -0500, Jon South wrote:
>> > > Why can't these be in sane formats like gzip or bzip2?
>> >
>> > Why do you consider xz not to be a sane format? It's
>> > pretty standard nowadays (btw the lunar compile logs are
>> > xz with the next version) and a fair amount smaller than
>> > both of the others. (Also doppio is more or less full :))
>> >
>> >
>> > v4hn
>>
>>
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