On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:11:22 +0200 (CEST) Terence Waterhouse <[email protected]> wrote:
> https://lwn.net/Articles/762264/ From that article, someone setup a bzip2 gitlab page: https://gitlab.com/bzip/bzip2 The download button is the one to the far right on the row of buttons that include "History", e.g.,: https://gitlab.com/bzip/bzip2/-/archive/master/bzip2-master.tar.gz Also, it is stated that bzip2 will later resume at its original distribution site at sourceware: https://sourceware.org/bzip2/ Lastly, I noticed this interesting article that criticizes xz: https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html The conclusion I reach from all this? That maybe we should all just stick with and/or return to gzip. Cheers, Mike Shell -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
