14 Sep
2005
14 Sep
'05
3:43 p.m.
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Sebastien Blondeel wrote:
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:10:50PM -0500, Aaron Cannon wrote:
Well, the complete collection of zip files from DP total 5GB. So, it would be too big for a dvd-5, but might fit on a dvd-9.
Suggestion: see how much better other compression algorithms do (eg: bzip2) The binaries can be included on the DVD for various systems, they are small in comparison.
I have some supercomputer time reserved for testing various compressions, so if anyone wants to send me any DVDs or their images, I can try to see how much we can pack onto a single $1 DVD. Michael