.gz is depreciated and will be removed soon!

From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Message-Id: <200303200955.h2K9t677000483@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org
To: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 09:55:06 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: mirrors@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <3E78D0DE.307@zytor.com> from "H. Peter Anvin" at Mar 19, 2003 12:19:42 PM
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> At some point it probably would make sense to start deprecating .gz
> format files from kernel.org.

Presumably the idea is to save bandwidth.  In that case, it might be
simpler to add:

<h1>.gz is depreciated and will be removed soon!</h1>
Please start using .bz2 immediately.  .gz downloads are rate limited
to 5kbps.

to index.html :-).

Seriously, there are occasions when you're patching a kernel on a 486
or something, that it's quicker to use the .gz than the .bz2, even
including the download time, (if you're on a fast connection).
However, there are probably a lot of people downloading .gz, because
they don't know what .bz2 is.

Likewise, http access to kernel.org is frequently slow, whereas ftp
access can use 100% of my link, simply because many more people use
http.

One other thing that occurs to me, the send your e-mail address as
anonymous password requirement means I can't use wget to access the
ftp site, (I think - the user:password@host syntax seems to confuse
it, when it's anonymous:me@mydomain@ftp.site).

John.
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