[CentOS] NOSSO(r) compression

Tue Dec 4 17:35:43 UTC 2007
Ruslan Sivak <rsivak at istandfor.com>

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

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? 

Russ