Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:09:06 -0800 | From | "Justin P. Mattock" <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7 |
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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. > > -ml > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
what about the new lz thing? (heck haven't even figured that out yet).
Justin P. Mattock
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