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