On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 04:44:38PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Jon Dowland wrote:
> > linux-3.6-rc2.tar.bz2  78M  
> > linux-3.6-rc2.tar.gz   99M  
> > linux-3.6-rc2.tar.xz   65M
>   linux-3.6-rc2.tar.lz   66M
> 
> I think lzip is worthy enough that it should have a mention too.  It
> has gotten less attention than xz and that is sad since it is a nice
> free software tool.  I recompressed that file using lzip for this
> comparison.

Thanks for the data (mashed/reformatted into quote above). I copied the
listings from the kernel.org archives, so the choice of compression types
was theirs (although I hadn't heard of lzip, thanks!)


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