Subject: Re: System configuration utility
To: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
From: Guenther Grau <Guenther.Grau@bk.bosch.de>
List: tech-install
Date: 09/30/1998 11:04:57
Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no wrote:
> > With ustarfs and bzip, I suspect we'll be able to fit a much more
> > interesting install in for the "average" user.
> 
> Just out of curiosity, is bzip a better compressor than gzip?  (No,
> I've not tried it yet.)

YES!

In most cases I have seen I manages to shave another 10-30%
of what gzip compresses. So according to information
theory, with the invention of bzip, the amount of information
available has been decreased ;-) ;-) ;-)

  Guenther