Would 7-zip put more Puppy on CD?

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Would 7-zip put more Puppy on CD?

#1 Post by Guest »

I am impressed with Puppy Linux but unfamiliar. I just wanted to make sure that you are aware of 7-zip, which is available for Windows and Linux. It gives the best compression that I know about. On Windows it's 30% better than plain ZIP with ASCII text. Don't know about binary or how it compares to bz but you should look at it.

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http://www.7-zip.org

Unix port
http://p7zip.sourceforge.net

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#2 Post by GuestToo »

i have 7-zip installed on Puppy, and Win XP

i have 7zip in my dotpups-to-do list (which is getting longer and longer and longer ...)

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#3 Post by Lobster »

:)

Here is G2's Todo list
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/wikka/GuestTooToDoList

Are you happy with the way things are or is it worth setting up a wiki list of "dotpups to create" where people can ofer to take a file/project (leaving the name and time to be dotpupped by)?

It will also leave people an opportunity to suggest files . . .
If anyone feels this is a good idea they can set up the wiki page . . .

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Clarification - Use for sys files

#4 Post by Guest »

The suggestion was not to include 7-zip "the application" - though I guess it would have to be included in order to pull off the idea.

The idea was to employ 7-zip as the actual compression tool which handles the puppy distro itself (the main system files). Because it is better compression, Puppy could cram more stuff into the distro.

Thank you.

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7-zip

#5 Post by marshalquest »

you could try http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches ... ads/linux/
linux-2.4-lzma-1.patch
linux-2.6-lzma-1.patch
mind the cpu overhead I have not tested yet (some time this week)

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Re: Clarification - Use for sys files

#6 Post by Guest »

Guest wrote: The idea was to employ 7-zip as the actual compression tool which handles the puppy distro itself (the main system files). Because it is better compression, Puppy could cram more stuff into the distro.
Hi,
In my experience (on windows but the principle is the same) 7-zip compression is very slow, but high compression ratio. I think Puppy uses gzip, which is pretty much the fastest [de]compression popularly used. Unfortunately I am fairly sure 7zip decompression would slow Puppy to a crawl.

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#7 Post by Flash »

As I understand it, Puppy is only compressed (I prefer the word 'condensed') on the CD. Puppy is uncompressed (or reconstituted) when it is loaded into RAM, so it would run the same no matter which compression algorithm is used. Different ones might load Puppy faster or slower into RAM from the CD, but I doubt the difference would be noticeable.

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