Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751558Ab0BMKDO (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:03:14 -0500 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:35130 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750849Ab0BMKDN (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:03:13 -0500 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4B767810.5020707@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:59:44 +0100 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20100102 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jean Delvare CC: Willy Tarreau , lasse.collin@tukaani.org, linux-kernel , mirrors@kernel.org, users@kernel.org, "FTPAdmin Kernel.org" , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion References: <4B744E13.8040004@kernel.org> <20100212150137.648dca7c@hyperion.delvare> <4B75A5DC.3060803@kernel.org> <20100212202357.6363d5af@hyperion.delvare> <20100212230702.GA10266@1wt.eu> <20100213091748.276821e1@hyperion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <20100213091748.276821e1@hyperion.delvare> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1197 Lines: 26 Jean Delvare wrote: > On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:07:02 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: >> Gzip is well >> defined as a standard, it's even described in an RFC and is present >> on almost any system (unix or not) now. Any student who wants to take >> a look at the kernel will have access to gunzip, even from an old >> Solaris 8 workstation or a Windows XP desktop PC. > > Really? I have a Windows XP laptop at hand and it can't read .gz files. > If I ask it to try, it tells me I should install WinZip. I also seem to > recall that I had to install GNU gzip myself back when I was working on > a Solaris workstation (but I might remember badly.) As a side note: 7zip, a very popular and Free archiving tool for Windows, supports xz since its version 9 which is currently available as a beta. So, WRT the need to get an extra unarchiver, xz is just as accessible to Windows users as gz is. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-=- --=- -==-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/