Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:55:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Robinson <wigstah@akitanet.co.uk> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, Arnout Boer <arnout@xs4all.nl>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003151453330.4834-100000@jake.akitanet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <53794.953128494@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > And you're forgetting that, as I said in my original reply, people with > 56K modems usually benefit from hardware compression over their link > anyway. But you're defeated by your own argument, as according to you the image doesn't compress very well, and I suspect (in fact I know) that hardware compression at the modem is not as efficient as gzip -9 ... at best you might be able to get that 22Mb we're talking about saving, down to a 10Mb saving... you're still leaving the guy with the modem sat there for around 45 minutes... -- Paul Robinson - Developer/Systems Administrator @ Akitanet Internet ------------------------------------------------------------------- E-m: paul@akitanet.co.uk | FreeBSD-4.0 Monopoly :- Tel: +44 (0) 161 228 6388 | Go directly to jail() ---------------------------| Do not pass /var/go http://www.akitanet.co.uk/ | Do not bind to 200.*.*.* IP addresses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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