Re: Let's talk about compression rates

[Jerome BENOIT <g6299304p@rezozer.net>]

On 22/01/11 18:44, S Mathias wrote:
> http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MwDnhknf
>
> $ ls -Sl
> total 461252
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 111709730 Jan 22 11:06 linux-2.6.37.zip
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g  93174605 Jan 22 11:03 linux-2.6.37.tar.gz
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g  73552510 Jan 22 11:10 linux-2.6.37.tar.bz2
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g  66333786 Jan 22 11:16 linux-2.6.37.7z
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g  64035788 Jan 22 11:16 linux-2.6.37.tar.7z
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g  63480808 Jan 22 11:20 linux-2.6.37.tar.xz
> $
>
> I presume kernel.org knows this. Why doesn't people use e.g.: XZ?

XZ is very recent compare BZ2

> This is the same as in PDF's. DJVU files could be amazing too. They could compress [convert] a 400 MByte PDF to a 20 MByte DJVU. Amazing.
>
> Why don't these technologies spread??
>
> Any opinions regarding it?
>
> Thanks.