On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 01:57:52PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > Look in the archives for the opinion on bz2. On less than midrange > > pentiums bzip2 is quite slow. 100k is not much of a diff, even over > > my modem. > > oh come on, i have used bz2 on my 50MHz 68030, and it worked just fine. > > also notice that the opinion of previous mail in the list was about .deb > packages compressed with bz2, not the Packages file. I too would use Packages.bz2 if they existed. Some of us have modems after all and few hundred k over a modem is a significant savings. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Bruce McKinney, author of of Hardcore Visual Basic, has announced that he's fed up with VB and won't be writing a 3rd edition of his book. The best quote is at the end: 'I don't need a language designed by a focus group'."
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