Comments on: 2.0 released https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2008/07/21/20-released/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:30:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Christian Sturm https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2008/07/21/20-released/comment-page-1/#comment-27666 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:30:18 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=2940#comment-27666 Hi,

I hope that this doesn’t sound like an advertisement, but I always used 7-zip on Windows. It supports a lot of formats, it’s pretty fast and also has a small command line version.
Of course it’s open source.

Two other ideas:
Placing a gzip executable on the mirrors (like NetBSD has rawrite2.exe on their mirors)
Stop using compression and only have ISOs

Link to 7-zip:
http://www.7-zip.org/

Oh and their 7z format is very good. This would save a lot of space and traffic. I’m hope it will replace gz and bz2 someday. If you know LZMA, that’s maunly, what 7z is.

Again, sorry for the advertising.

]]> By: Justin Sherrill https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2008/07/21/20-released/comment-page-1/#comment-27396 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:43:13 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=2940#comment-27396 gzip can open files that end in gz – http://www.gzip.org/ – I don’t know offhand of anyplace that has a non-compressed version, as that eats up a lot more bandwidth. It would be handy to have a zipped copy.

The domain that hosted the bittorrent link appears to have reached its bandwidth limit.

]]> By: Nicol https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2008/07/21/20-released/comment-page-1/#comment-27394 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:55:57 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=2940#comment-27394 I just wanna try the 2.0. But this torrent link doesn’t work.
B.T.W. How to unzip the .gz images. (That’s why I have to use the torrent instead of iso images)

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