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Technical question: What are .lz files? Is this LZMA compression? If so, why not using the more popular .xz format?
by vog 10y ago
Technical question: What are .lz files? Is this LZMA compression? If so, why not using the more popular .xz format?
- davexunit 10y agoI'm not sure but probably because it produced a smaller file than xz.
- clacke2 10y agoIt seems that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lzip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lzip came out at the time between lzma and xz, possibly because lzma lacked proper file headers and checksumming at the time. These days, some distros use lz and most use xz, probably mostly due to historical reasons.
- iso-8859-1 10y agoHere's why: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html tl;dr: Because apparently some people believe that not only can they afford to exclude some users by avoiding zip's, but they must also bike-shed some more.
- __s 10y agoThat seems like a well thought out article