Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 03:52:01 -0400 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is xz ? Message-ID: <CAOgwaMtM5eE_uBnu15nCTz0pt45Rxz%2BsuMjJBwgYM1JJoMsOMA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E0EB955.7090308@gmail.com> References: <4E0EB955.7090308@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com>wrote: > > Hi all, > I just downloaded FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.xz and the md5 > checksum is correct. Can someone please tell me what does that xz at > the end stand for ? It looks like it stands for some kind of > compression (gzip/bzip2/some new format), but I can't figure out > exactly which one. > Thank you & > Regards > Manish Jain > [1]invalid.pointer@gmail.com > > References > > 1. mailto:invalid.pointer@gmail.com > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Archive_formats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(file_format) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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