[CentOS] NOSSO(r) compression
Ruslan Sivak
rsivak at istandfor.com
Wed Dec 5 18:07:55 UTC 2007
I just compresses using bzip2, and it only saved 8% versus over 50%
saved by using NOSSO(r). Here is the bzip2 output
1.080:1, 7.406 bits/byte, 7.42% saved, 2718433280 in, 2516591511 out.
The command line I used to compress was bzip2 -9zvv sol-10-u4-ga-x86-dvd.iso
Russ
Alain Spineux wrote:
> Did you try to bzip2 the DVD using -9 options to have something to compare ?
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> On Dec 4, 2007 6:35 PM, Ruslan Sivak <rsivak at istandfor.com> wrote:
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>> I just downloaded solaris. They have two versions, the split DVD that
>> comes with two 1.2GB zipped chunks and an exe which is 1.2GB but
>> uncompresses to the full 2.5+GB. I found some info on them here:
>> http://www.nosltd.com/nosso.html
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>> Any idea how they achieve such great compression? Looks like they're
>> using a proprietary algorithm and don't offer any downloads. Also looks
>> like it's windows only. Is there a linux/open source alternative out
>> there?
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>> Russ
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