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    SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.33-rc7
    On 02/06/10 20:54, Mark Lord wrote:
    > Linus Torvalds wrote:
    >> 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.
    > ..
    >
    > I prefer the .gz files, despite limited bandwidth here.
    > My older, slower CPUs cope with them better.
    >
    > But .bz2-only would be fine as well.
    >
    > I just wish the GNU tar folk had the sense to combine -z and -j
    > into a single flag.
    >
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    what about the new lz thing?
    (heck haven't even figured that out yet).

    Justin P. Mattock


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