On Sat, 22 Jan 2011, S Mathias wrote:
> To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
> From: S Mathias <smathias1972@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: 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
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