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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Phill,

Do you mean to have a choice in a screen (made with the dialog software
package), or do you mean to focus on xz for high compression, and let it
be slower? (xz need more RAM than gzip, but *not* too much.)

Best regards
Nio

On 2013-10-28 18:07, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> Hi Federico and Nio,
> 
> That makes sense to me :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phill.
> 
> 
> 
> On 28 October 2013 16:44, Federico Leoni <effelle@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:effelle@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     2013/10/28 Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>>:
>     > Hi Federico,
>     >
>     > I'm glad that your system is portable via the tarball :-)
>     >
>     > OK, I was conservative, and kept the simple, fast and less
>     memory-greedy
>     > gzip compression, but I listen to your advice, so I will prepare
>     to make
>     > xz compression standard in the next version. I guess you know that
>     xz is
>     > slower expanding (maybe 25%) and much slower compressing (it needs
>     more
>     > than the double time), and you still want to because small size is
>     > highest priority?
>     >
>     > And thanks for the observation about the "Attempt to read or write
>     > outside of disk hd0" and PATA.
>     >
>     > Best regards
>     > Nio
>     >
> 
>     Well Nio,
> 
>     a small size on the usb drive it's better I think. but If you prefer
>     fast compression (and thinking about it should be the better choice
>     for old computers) at least you could add an advanced option to choose
>     the type of compression and the name of the tarball.
> 
>     Let me know.
> 
>     F.
> 
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