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[Matthew Dillon]

:>     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.
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: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
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:http://a.ftp.fortunaty.net/DragonFly/iso-images/dfly-1.0A_REL.iso.7z
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:Andy
 
     I looked at it, but I don't think we are going to use it.  It looks
     like a mess of different algorithms and I don't trust that the long
     term (30 year horizon) stability and compatibility will be there.
     
					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
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