Yes, done for First CD !Hallo! I've downloaded Linuxin, a Debian based 1 CD spanish distro (http://linuxin.paislinux.net/). Here's md5sum's file: -------- 620a0bb7696bf55f3a143220a8853002 ./linuxin-1.0r1.iso 16b9e54036cfd50458f649cb4907721b ./linuxin-1.0r1.iso.bz2 --------First is the mentioned ISO. It's 698Mb... And second is the same ISO but it's been bzipped: 250Mb... it's taken near 3 times less to download than a normal ISO. Wouldn't it be possible that the ISOs were (also) bzipped ? They'll take much less download time 8-?I've tried compressing isos (I think redhat and mandrake ISOs) in the past and they rarely become more than a few megs smaller. I suspect it just depends exactly what is on the CD and how well compressed those things are. Can anyone test with a modern mandrake ISO?
Results ...
Before:
-rw-r--r-- 1 mantis mantis 729153536 sep 2 15:19 MandrakeLinux-9.0rc1-CD1.i586.iso
After:
-rw-r--r-- 1 mantis mantis 672619543 sep 2 15:19 MandrakeLinux-9.0rc1-CD1.i586.iso.bz2
Not really miraculous !
mantis.
