[texhax] TexLive 2008

Walter Sägesser saegesser.w at bluewin.ch
Tue Sep 23 20:42:22 CEST 2008


The distribution of the texlive2008.iso as a LZMA compression is 
unbearable. A really bad idea. No doubt it compresses better, but on 
every and each PC/MAC/Linux you have an unzipper ready to run. Rather 
download 100 or even 500MB more than run after a decompressor.

Best regards
Walter Sägesser

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