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Re: Gnome Boxes


From: Evan Rowley
Subject: Re: Gnome Boxes
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:39:36 -0500

FreeBSD also provides .iso.xz. Some examples here: http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/13.0/

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 4:23 PM Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:
Sorry, a compressed .iso is probably common, a .iso.xz is very uncommon :). We even have had some reports of people trying to copy that directly to an installation media.

Le 18 février 2021 14:56:44 GMT-05:00, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> a écrit :
Julien Lepiller 写道:
Usually compression is provided by the webserver, but maybe ours
is not configured to do that. I think we're the only distro to
provide compressed isos.

Really? Most distribution ISOs use squashfs or similar with
XZ/LZMA compression. It doesn't make sense to compress that over
the wire.

That said: XZ compression currently saves 27% (559M -> 405M).
Transparently serving pre-compressed ISOs with nginx (gzip level
9) would save about 25% (559M -> 415M), which is surprisingly
similar.

Kind regards,

T G-R


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