Red Hat's Fedora 8 hope: An all-purpose Linux foundation (c|net) [LWN.net]

Red Hat's Fedora 8 hope: An all-purpose Linux foundation (c|net)

Posted Nov 12, 2007 13:26 UTC (Mon) by Oddscurity (subscriber, #46851)
In reply to: Red Hat's Fedora 8 hope: An all-purpose Linux foundation (c|net) by epa
Parent article: Red Hat's Fedora 8 hope: An all-purpose Linux foundation (c|net)

Perhaps it's the packages that are actually installed, as opposed to simply included. Having
all packages in the repository available from the menu wouldn't exactly make the menus very
useful.

That at least makes sense to me, as you say yourself if a Live DVD can't host the better part
of the packages, it might be time to investigate newer compression methods. 7zip comes to mind
here.

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Red Hat's Fedora 8 hope: An all-purpose Linux foundation (c|net)

Posted Nov 12, 2007 14:49 UTC (Mon) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]

Hmm... even then I would say it doesn't hurt to install everything but just don't put it all on the default menu (or move it to an 'Other' section). Multigigabyte disks are commonplace these days.

7zip compression (called LZMA) is good; lrzip is Con Kolivas's marriage of LZMA and the reordering 'long range' first pass from Andrew Tridgell's rzip to get something which compresses both better and faster than bzip2 or plain 7-zip (I think). The main disadvantage is that it has to compress the whole file (can't really be used as a stream filter like gzip) and needs a lot of memory for the compression stage. But those don't matter for installing a Linux distro to a hard disk. They could be awkward for live-CD and live-DVD distributions.