On Sat, 22 Jan 2011, S Mathias wrote: > To: centos at centos.org > From: S Mathias <smathias1972 at 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------