On 01/22/2011 06:44 AM, S Mathias wrote: > I presume kernel.org knows this. Why doesn't people use e.g.: XZ? > > 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?
Well...giving out the resulting size is not enough when comparing compression ratios (what about the time it took to compress? decompress? Those are important factors as well. Nonetheless, XZ is very good and many projects are catching up (back in Fedora 12, RPM switched to XZ compression from the previous gzip). -- Jorge -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
