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kevdog
August 31st, 2009, 06:02 AM
Ok so I saw this on distrowatch.com describing the Slackware 13.0 release: a new .txz package format with much better compression

What exactly is the txz (other than tarred) format?
Greg
August 31st, 2009, 06:09 AM
It uses an xz compresses tar as opposed to a gz compressed tar.
kevdog
August 31st, 2009, 06:19 AM
Doing some reading on the new xz format -- but it doesn't seem ubuntu offers a package at least in my version. Will this be in Jaunty?

http://linuxgazette.net/162/lindholm.html
http://tukaani.org/xz/
andrew.46
September 14th, 2009, 06:53 AM
Hi kevdog,


Ok so I saw this on distrowatch.com describing the Slackware 13.0 release: a new .txz package format with much better compression

What exactly is the txz (other than tarred) format?

New compression format. Have a look at the changelogs (http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-13.0/ChangeLog.txt). The section you are after is marked:


Fri May 8 18:49:03 CDT 2009


Andrew