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Nah, there are specific formats for isos. The full spec name is ISO_9660 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660 In a cer
by DeepYogurt 2y ago
Nah, there are specific formats for isos. The full spec name is ISO_9660 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660
In a certain sense you're right that in practice dumping the bytes of a disc into a file is what gave people the files, but those discs did have a structure to them. I think what's being said here is that constructing an image in the iso 9660 structure is past its time
- dataflow 2y agoI don't think that's what they're referring to? If that's what they mean, then it's very confusing -- and makes me think if they themselves are confused. It's like saying "we should stop shipping Joliet files" or "we should stop shipping UDF files", which makes no sense. ISO 9660 is a filesystem, not a "file format". Yet they write: > EasyOS ships as a .img file, that is written to a drive. Barry stopped shipping EasyOS as an ISO file from early 2020.
- DeepYogurt 2y agoIt's possible I misread it, but fair point on the .img file call out. I suppose I used to refer to .iso files as a file format given that's how I used to interact with them so that terminology read as natural to me.
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