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

Gabriel M. Beddingfield gabrbedd at gmail.com
Mon Feb 8 09:40:21 EST 2010



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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