On Sat, 22 Jan 2011, S Mathias wrote:
To: centos@centos.org From: S Mathias smathias1972@yahoo.com Subject: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MwDnhknf
$ ls -Sl total 461252 -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 111709730 Jan 22 11:06 linux-2.6.37.zip -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 93174605 Jan 22 11:03 linux-2.6.37.tar.gz -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 73552510 Jan 22 11:10 linux-2.6.37.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 66333786 Jan 22 11:16 linux-2.6.37.7z -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 64035788 Jan 22 11:16 linux-2.6.37.tar.7z -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 63480808 Jan 22 11:20 linux-2.6.37.tar.xz $
I presume kernel.org knows this. Why doesn't people use e.g.: XZ?
This is the same as in PDF's. DJVU files could be amazing too. They could compress [convert] a 400 MByte PDF to a 20 MByte DJVU. Amazing.
Looks interesting. Here are some more compression/archiving related links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_archive_formats
http://linuxgazette.net/162/lindholm.html
Kind Regards,
Keith
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