bzip2 (was Re: [ILUG] Java and Linux)

[Donncha O Caoimh]

bzip2 is also used to package the Gimp, kernel, Wine (I think) and lots
of other stuff. It can be quite a bit better than gzip, and the tar
executable included with RH6.1 supports it supposedly, even though it's
not documented. (haven't tested it, I think it's the -y parameter)

Donncha.

Shane Dempsey wrote:
> 

> BTW could anyone tell me ( I know that there are SUN
> people on this list ) why the bzip format is used
> for these distros ? Does it give greater compression
> or is it just done to piss people off ?
> In my experience nobody uses bzip2 for anything other
> than unzipping jdks
>