Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 6 Feb 2010 14:49:49 -0800 (PST) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7 |
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On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > But we've certainly fixed a few things, and it's been a week, so here's > -rc7. I wish I could say that it's the last -rc, but I strongly doubt > that, and we'll almost certainly have at least one more.
Oh, and I forgot to ask one thing I had intended to ask in the release notes..
Do people really care about the old-fashioned tar.gz and patch.gz files? I've always uploaded the tar-files and patches compressed with gzip, because that's the "traditional" way, and then we have a script that also re-compresses things as 'bz2' because it compresses better and many people are bandwidth-limited and much prefer the better compression.
Of course, if you really care about bandwidth, you're better off just fetching the git trees instead, but the question for non-git users is:
Would it be ok to _only_ have the 'bz2' patches and tar-balls?
Having two copies of every large file seems silly, if nobody really requires the traditional .gz format..
Linus
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