Re: [DNG] How to unarchive an .xz

2018-10-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
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

Re: [DNG] How to unarchive an .xz

2018-10-21 Thread Didier Kryn
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

Re: [DNG] How to unarchive an .xz

2018-10-21 Thread Martin Steigerwald
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

Re: [DNG] How to unarchive an .xz

2018-10-20 Thread Rick Moen
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

Re: [DNG] How to unarchive an .xz

2018-10-20 Thread blinkdog
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

Re: [DNG] How to unarchive an .xz

2018-10-20 Thread Rick Moen
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

Re: [DNG] How to unarchive an .xz

2018-10-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
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

Re: [DNG] How to unarchive an .xz

2018-10-20 Thread Rick Moen
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

Re: [DNG] How to unarchive an .xz

2018-10-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
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

Re: [DNG] How to unarchive an .xz

2018-10-20 Thread arne
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

Re: [DNG] How to unarchive an .xz

2018-10-20 Thread Harald Arnesen
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.

Re: [DNG] How to unarchive an .xz

2018-10-20 Thread Adam Borowski
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,

Re: [DNG] How to unarchive an .xz

2018-10-20 Thread Harald Arnesen
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-

[DNG] How to unarchive an .xz

2018-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
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 September 2018 featured book: Quit Joblessnes