[texhax] TexLive 2008

Donald Arseneau asnd at triumf.ca
Thu Sep 25 09:33:18 CEST 2008


Donald Arseneau <asnd at triumf.ca> writes:

> Walter Sägesser wrote:
> 
> > Rather download 100 or even 500MB more than run after a decompressor.
> 
> The sizes are 1.19GB vs 2.44GB for lzma vs raw, but I'll have to
> download the raw and zip it in order to compare sensibly.

The iso zipped with "zip -9" has a size of 1.42GB.  I don't know
that the 230MB saving is worth the fuss, but it is not insignificant.

> If you want to help distribute the raw iso, download it by bittorrent
> on a well-connected computer, and seed it.

I'm still seeding.

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Donald Arseneau                          asnd at triumf.ca


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