DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: wish list for the new version, dsl 5.0

Quote (curaga @ June 13 2008,08:11)

And yes, Puppy has used squashfs a long time, also for their main image. Not sure about 4, haven't tried it.

4.0 has a pet2sfs script for apps (mount by clicking) in addition to a gui bootloader utility for loading sfs files at bootime.

Regarding compcache:

Does anyone know much about this? For eg if it is being used at scale on any distros or embedded systems? Is the developer associated with OLPC?

Update: it is being included in Ubuntu Intrepid.

Is it used automatically, and if so, how much is allocated?

Quote (curaga @ June 22 2008,13:19)

Is it used automatically, and if so, how much is allocated?

Seems like you can adjust; found this..

"2) compcache uses kernel memory, which is limited to 1GB on i386. To ensure we don't run out, I limit the compcache size to under 200MB so less than 100MB of kernel memory is used. (The compression ratio for the liveCD seems to be robustly 2:1).

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