3 Apr
2005
3 Apr
'05
12:03 a.m.
Mike Swanson wrote:
I'd rather go with a free compression scheme like
gzip, bzip, or
7-Zip. RAR is too buggy on GNU/Linux...
I think it would be a good idea to provide cdrom image, binaries and
source in various formats because:
- zip opens in many platforms, however it has a bad compression tax,
and is proprietary...
- 7-zip is a very good compression format, but it doesn't open on
Linux/Unix...
- (tar.)bzip2 is also very good but it is special for Unix/Linux!
- RAR has a better compression that zip, but it is proprietary...
Why don't you provide it both in 7-zip and in bzip2?
João Jerónimo