On Monday, 3 June 2013 at 21:18:54 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Also does ".tar.gz" vs ".tar.bz2" matter? I understand that the latter (if I spelled it right) is newer and better compression, but any reasonI'd look at xz, it's increasingly becoming the standard packaging format for open source distros:that it might *need* to be one or the other?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz#UsesIt usually compresses the tightest and decompresses the fastest, while beating bzip2 on compression time.
