re: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org

From: Tomas Szepe (szepe@pinerecords.com)
Date: Thu Mar 20 2003 - 12:48:42 EST

> [jbglaw@lug-owl.de]
>
> On Wed, 2003-03-19 12:19:42 -0800, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> wrote in message <3E78D0DE.307@zytor.com>:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > At some point it probably would make sense to start deprecating .gz
> > format files from kernel.org.
>
> However, please keep in mind that it's a *PITA* if you're working on a
> machine with not > 500MHz and > 128MB RAM:

Well, you see, hpa probably made a mistake in his original proposal.

Likely he meant to say he intended to deprecate bz2 and was about
to introduce lzo instead. ;) 

-- 
Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
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