Re: beta3

"Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com> writes:

> > If I'd downloaded this thing over a decent DSL or cable modem 
> > line, bzip2 would actually be a net loss in total 
> > download + uncompress time.
> 
> I think the download time is a lot more important to people than 
> the uncompression time. A savings of nearly 1.5 Megs is 
> significant, no matter what type of line you are on.

And for CD space (I'd love bzipped binaries), ftp space, etc (not only
for mirrors, but for distributions shipping postgresql and mirrors
thereeof.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.