On Thu, August 7, 2008 12:25 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :Would there be any objection to having zipped versions of our ISOs? The > :file size wouldn't change much.
> I see the reasoning but I don't like the idea of the multiplication of > space used for N different compressed versions of the ISOs. > > It may be easier just to provide a pointer on the download page > to windoz programs capable of decompressing the .gz. Zip will decompress automatically on Windows. There's no other N number of formats to add. Here's another way to put this: If someone downloads a FreeBSD, NetBSD, Fedora, Ubuntu, or Debian ISO image, they don't need to download a separate program from a different website just to unlock it. In that light, is the 120M saved so important?
