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Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:59:44 +0100 From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> To: Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org> CC: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, lasse.collin@...aani.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, mirrors@...nel.org, users@...nel.org, "FTPAdmin Kernel.org" <ftpadmin@...nel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion Jean Delvare wrote: > On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:07:02 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: >> Gzip is well >> defined as a standard, it's even described in an RFC and is present >> on almost any system (unix or not) now. Any student who wants to take >> a look at the kernel will have access to gunzip, even from an old >> Solaris 8 workstation or a Windows XP desktop PC. > > Really? I have a Windows XP laptop at hand and it can't read .gz files. > If I ask it to try, it tells me I should install WinZip. I also seem to > recall that I had to install GNU gzip myself back when I was working on > a Solaris workstation (but I might remember badly.) As a side note: 7zip, a very popular and Free archiving tool for Windows, supports xz since its version 9 which is currently available as a beta. So, WRT the need to get an extra unarchiver, xz is just as accessible to Windows users as gz is. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-=- --=- -==-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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