Installing via iso.xz, really best idea? -- was Re: Gnome Boxes

2021-02-22 Thread Bengt Richter
Hi, On +2021-02-22 00:39:36 -0500, Evan Rowley wrote: > FreeBSD also provides .iso.xz. Some examples here: > http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/13.0/ > Looking there for an example: --8<---cut here---start->8---

Re: Gnome Boxes

2021-02-21 Thread Evan Rowley
FreeBSD also provides .iso.xz. Some examples here: http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/13.0/ On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 4:23 PM Julien Lepiller wrote: > Sorry, a compressed .iso is probably common, a .iso.xz is very uncommon > :). We even have had some

Re: Gnome Boxes

2021-02-18 Thread Julien Lepiller
Sorry, a compressed .iso is probably common, a .iso.xz is very uncommon :). We even have had some reports of people trying to copy that directly to an installation media. Le 18 février 2021 14:56:44 GMT-05:00, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice a écrit : >Julien Lepiller 写道: >> Usually compression is

Re: Gnome Boxes

2021-02-18 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Julien Lepiller 写道: Usually compression is provided by the webserver, but maybe ours is not configured to do that. I think we're the only distro to provide compressed isos. Really? Most distribution ISOs use squashfs or similar with XZ/LZMA compression. It doesn't make sense to compress

Re: Gnome Boxes

2021-02-18 Thread Julien Lepiller
bmitting the MR to libosinfo, there were concerns that the .xz >extension would cause problems with other software, so we left it out. >> >> I think we should provide a .iso download directly, if we want gnome >boxes to propose the guix system. > >We could do that

Re: Gnome Boxes

2021-02-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Julien Lepiller skribis: > When submitting the MR to libosinfo, there were concerns that the .xz > extension would cause problems with other software, so we left it out. > > I think we should provide a .iso download directly, if we want gnome boxes to > propose the guix sy

Re: Gnome Boxes

2021-02-11 Thread Julien Lepiller
Hi! When submitting the MR to libosinfo, there were concerns that the .xz extension would cause problems with other software, so we left it out. I think we should provide a .iso download directly, if we want gnome boxes to propose the guix system. Le 9 février 2021 08:58:35 GMT-05:00, Adriano

Gnome Boxes

2021-02-11 Thread Adriano Peluso
Gnome Boxes is GUI app that manages virtual machines and OSs images to run in them  It's a sort of Qemu for the rest of us. It offers a menu with images of OSs to download and run There are several versions of NixOs, among many others There's a recipe for Guix System by Julien Lepiller, it's