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[Andreas Hauser]

dillon wrote @ Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:12:20 -0700 (PDT):

>     Well, I dunno.  bzip2 is now fairly ubiquitous in the world of UNIX,
>     and it does produce ~17% better compressed ISOs.  While I don't think
>     it is a good general choice due to its lack of flexibility in cpu
>     consumption (1), it may be a good choice for ISO distribution.  bzip2 -9
>     produces a 70MB file while gzip -9 produces an 82MB file.


With 7z i get a 49 MB file instead of the 79 MB with gzip.
See archivers/p7zip and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7z

http://a.ftp.fortunaty.net/DragonFly/iso-images/dfly-1.0A_REL.iso.7z


Andy