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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Federico,

I'm glad it 13.04 works for you. Yes, I have a Lubuntu 13.10 tarball
already. I am testing it, mainly the portability to various computers,
before uploading it. I hope to upload it within a few days.

The latest improvement was to add pulseaudio and pavucontrol to make the
sound work in a Dell Dimension 4600 (where almamixer didn't find the
Sound Blaster card [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X).

Best regards
Nio

On 2013-10-18 20:30, Federico Leoni wrote:
> Nio,
> 
> worked like a charm on my Dell C400 with 13.04 tarball.
>  Do you plan to release a dd image (or a tarball for lubuntu 13.10 too?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> F.
> 
> 2013/10/14 Aere Greenway <Aere@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On 10/13/2013 05:27 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The OBI has taken the step from [pre]version 0.7 to version 1.0:
>>
>> 1. The dialogue has been improved by using screens made with the linux
>> program dialog. It means a menu style similar to that of the alternate
>> installer and the mini.iso. See the attached pictures. Feedback from
>> several persons made me understand, that the previous interface was not
>> good enough for the majority of computer users, so this was necessary.
>> There are still some rough edges, but the basic usage should be easier
>> and more appealing now. And in the near future I intend to remove the
>> rough edges (that I am aware of).
>>
>> 2. The compression of the dd-image files and the tarballs is improved.
>> The original compression was using gzip. It is still available, but now
>> xz compression is also available, and xz compression is more than 20%
>> more efficient, often 30% (meaning that the size of the compressed file
>> is 20-30% smaller than a gzipped file). xz is slower and needs more
>> memory, but not too much. During a test with low RAM, 128 MB, extracting
>> the tarball with xz used 62 MB while extracting with gzip used 49 GB.
>> Downloading is usually the bottleneck, so small files are preferred.
>>
>> The default compression for making an own tarball is using gzip. In the
>> present version 1.0, you must run mktbl from the bash shell to create an
>> xz tarball, which is one of the rough edges.
>>
>> See this link
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw/OBI
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
>>
>>
>>
>> Nio:
>>
>> That looks good.
>>
>> The warnings are more than adequate, which is a good thing.
>>
>> --
>> Sincerely,
>> Aere
>>
>>
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