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Old 02-19-2008, 11:58 AM
William Park
 
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Default Re: Upgrade Slackware tgz/txt to tbz2/txt

Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> wrote:
> Joaco <tonyb@bogus.net> wrote:
> > I sure wish if in a future Slackware, the default Slackware
> > archive format were upgraded to tbz2 from the current tgz.

>
> We wouldn't win that many percents in compression on such a replacement.
> However, like Slackware once replaced the floppies with CDs, maybe it
> would be time to replace the CDs with DVDs? It would all fit on one DVD
> and still leave room for new goodies like OpenOffice.


That would be good. But, I still want ability to boot from floppy and
install over NFS for installing on old machine.

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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
No, I will not fix your computer! I'll reformat your harddisk, though.
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