-On [20000315 15:35], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
>> Seriously though, there's no reason not to have the ISOs up in
>> compressed format though. I guess given a choice between _only_
>> compressed or _only_ uncompressed I think uncompressed is better,
>> but if the space is available it would be nice to see compressed
>> images available.
>
>How many FTP servers support on the fly gzipping and
>ungzipping? mirror.aarnet.edu.au does...perhaps a little note could be
>placed in .message to remind people to try it...
In all honesty, that's not a very intelligent option when discussing
compressing ISO's.
Compressing ISO's brings along a lot of cpu burn cycles as well as a
large memory footprint.
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