Re: [LAU] Music Made With Linux - a bit of Greek sunshine

From: Gabriel M. Beddingfield <gabrbedd@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Feb 08 2010 - 16:40:21 EET

On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Viktor Mastoridis wrote:

> files for a website. Tar? I thought I'd use an Open Source compression...

FYI:

.tar files are totally UN-compressed.

.ogg files are already very compressed. If you try to
compress further using gzip or bzip2 (both open-source)...
you'll probably find that it doesn't make the file very much
smaller -- and possibly will make the file larger.

-gabriel
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