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Google releases a better compression algorithm

Google releases a better compression algorithm

Posted Mar 1, 2013 10:15 UTC (Fri) by Thue (subscriber, #14277)
In reply to: Google releases a better compression algorithm by rsidd
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How about recompressing the Debian archive? Compress once, download a million times. Or Windows updates.


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Google releases a better compression algorithm

Posted Mar 1, 2013 10:25 UTC (Fri) by engla (guest, #47454) [Link]

It's decided by the maintainer of the package. For the upcoming release a lot of packages switched to xz .debs so that the desktop install CDs fit.

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