Re: coreutils-6.9.90 released

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sunday 02 December 2007, Philip Rowlands wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Actually, I *was* really impressed to see the size decrease from 5.6MB
> > to 3.6MB, when going from bzip2 to lzma compression on the coreutils
> > tarball.
>
> The algorithm's clearly doing better, but I've not seen much use of lmza
> in the wild. On the distros I tried (Fedora, Ubuntu) it was easier to
> find 7zip packages than lmza. Is .7z a more widespread archive format?

lzma is not an archive format.  7z is.  7z allows a choice of compression 
algorithms, but it defaults to lzma.  check out the wikipedia articles for 
the technologies in question as they're pretty good.
-mike

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