From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 15 6:29:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from beebite.ugh.net.au (beebite.ugh.net.au [203.31.238.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3CD537BB3C for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 06:29:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@ugh.net.au) Received: by beebite.ugh.net.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 71EE42C3; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 01:29:35 +1100 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beebite.ugh.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65C8B2AD; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 00:29:35 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 00:29:35 +1000 (EST) From: andrew@ugh.net.au To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? In-Reply-To: <20000315063703.H14789@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: X-WonK: *wibble* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Seriously though, there's no reason not to have the ISOs up in > compressed format though. I guess given a choice between _only_ > compressed or _only_ uncompressed I think uncompressed is better, > but if the space is available it would be nice to see compressed > images available. How many FTP servers support on the fly gzipping and ungzipping? mirror.aarnet.edu.au does...perhaps a little note could be placed in .message to remind people to try it... Andrew (who is on 33.6 and dosnt even contemplate downloading ISO images) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message