On Apr 16, 2009, Antonio Diaz Diaz <[email protected]> wrote: > Did you think about distributing lzip compressed tarballs (in addition > to tar.bz2)?
I hadn't. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into doing that for upcoming releases, such as 2.6.29.2, and then I'll retrofit it to earlier releases. > Lzipped tarballs of linux-2.6.XX-libre are about 9MB (17%) smaller than > bzip2ed ones. Wow! That's a lot! I had no idea. Thanks for letting me know. >> You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi > Of course all my projects are released as lzip compressed tarballs! :-) Kind regards, -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
