Hi all,
I want to make a VM from devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_qemu.qcow2.xz
After 15 minutes googling and reading Devuan docs, I have nothing that
works. How do I unarchive the file? Could you please put the method in
the README file?
SteveT
Steve Litt
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Steve Litt [20/10/2018 18.39]:
> I want to make a VM from devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_qemu.qcow2.xz
>
> After 15 minutes googling and reading Devuan docs, I have nothing that
> works. How do I unarchive the file? Could you please put the method in
> the README file?
$ aptitude search xz
...
i xz-
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 12:39:39PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> I want to make a VM from devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_qemu.qcow2.xz
>
> After 15 minutes googling and reading Devuan docs, I have nothing that
> works. How do I unarchive the file? Could you please put the method in
> the README file?
Uhm,
Adam Borowski [20/10/2018 22.54]:
> Anything else has been obsoleted and should be deprecated:
> * gzip is venerable and had seen so much use in the past that it won't ever
> go away. But you shouldn't use it: it's speed is same as xz at level 2.5
> but compression ratio is drastically worse.
On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 23:08:23 +0200
Harald Arnesen wrote:
> Adam Borowski [20/10/2018 22.54]:
>
> > Anything else has been obsoleted and should be deprecated:
> > * gzip is venerable and had seen so much use in the past that it
> > won't ever go away. But you shouldn't use it: it's speed is same
On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 23:24:46 +0200, arne wrote in message
<20181020232446.231bf6f5@ryzen>:
> On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 23:08:23 +0200
> Harald Arnesen wrote:
>
> > Adam Borowski [20/10/2018 22.54]:
> >
> > > Anything else has been obsoleted and should be deprecated:
> > > * gzip is venerable and h
Quoting Arnt Karlsen (a...@iaksess.no):
> > > You forgot 'pack' :-)
> >
> > You forgot pigz lbzip2 pixz pxz, those are multicore, multithtread
> > programs.
>
> ...and rzip and lrzip... ;oD
Honestly, Adam's run-through was so close to being exhaustive and
definitive as to be IMO sort of brea
On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 15:16:33 -0700, Rick wrote in message
<20181020221633.ga17...@linuxmafia.com>:
> Quoting Arnt Karlsen (a...@iaksess.no):
>
> > > > You forgot 'pack' :-)
> > >
> > > You forgot pigz lbzip2 pixz pxz, those are multicore, multithtread
> > > programs.
> >
> > ...and rzip
Quoting Arnt Karlsen (a...@iaksess.no):
> ...and by this too. Like I liked the humor in those 2 lines I got
> blamed for. ;o) Which we could have been a little clearer about.
I did notice and appreciate the gentle raillery, Arnt. ;->
> ..I believe I have seen (about 20 years ago) a wintendo o
On Saturday, October 20, 2018 5:16 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Honestly, Adam's run-through was so close to being exhaustive and
> definitive as to be IMO sort of breathtaking. And thus appreciated by this
> correspondent.
+1, I also found that information very useful. In particular, that bzip2 should
Quoting blinkdog (blink...@protonmail.com):
> +1, I also found that information very useful. In particular, that
> bzip2 should be deprecated and that xz is both better and faster than
> gzip at some setting were very useful to me.
FWIW, now recorded in the Linuxmafia.com Knowledgebase as 'Compre
Adam Borowski - 20.10.18, 22:54:
> * zip is used by Windows folks only, similar to gzip.
It is also used by LibreOffice (or under-maintained OpenOffice).
[…]
> * 7z is similar but incompatible to xz; also a container rather than a
> pure compressor.
There can be benefits of container compressors
Le 20/10/2018 à 22:54, Adam Borowski a écrit :
bzip2 is drastically slower (esp. at decompression) than xz and zstd; it
needs to die.
There's a version of bzip2 which can parallellize the compression
while producing a compatible format. When compression has been
parallellized, decompre
On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 13:25:24 +0200, Martin wrote in message
<14421440.MIaJRJDx6e@merkaba>:
> Adam Borowski - 20.10.18, 22:54:
> > * zip is used by Windows folks only, similar to gzip.
>
> It is also used by LibreOffice (or under-maintained OpenOffice).
>
> […]
> > * 7z is similar but incompat
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