What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

Saw this posting from Bruce on Slashdot: http://www.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=98/10/15/1011208pid=128#147 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:45:49PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:29:34PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: theone wrote: Names after

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

so much more by using bzip2, then people will simply stop upgrading, or switch to other distributions because it is so slow. That is not acceptable. John Christopher Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If your mighty 386/25 with 4MB can make World the entire X distribution and custom

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

, reduced load on ftp mirrors, reduced usage of local disk space for those of us that like to keep a local mirror, etc., etc Christopher James Troup wrote: Christopher Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If your mighty 386/25 ^ a) cut out the sarcasm, it's uncalled

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

If your mighty 386/25 with 4MB can make World the entire X distribution and custom kernels then surely it won't sweat a little bit of bzip2 decompressing... and since you spend a lot less time downloading a bzip2ed *.deb, the extra time bzip2 would take by swapping and thrashing the disk should