Thread: New compression method
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Unread 08-09-2004, 15:04
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Re: New compression method
I have to argue from the other side. Compression is good. For instance, I have a 120 GB HD and a 40 GB HD in my computer right now. (For those lazy out there, that's 160 GBs of total storage.) However, I still don't appreciate the 9 GBs that 4 Fedora Core, 3 Mandrake, 3 Redhat, 3 BSD, and a few different live CD ISOs are taking up.

Also, consider the people on dialup users who pay by the minutes they're on. If you had the choice between a 100 MB download or a .5 KB download which are exactly the same things, which would you go for? Sure, the decompression takes time, but you're not paying for the time online you would be spending downloading a larger file. Also, this would be great for those amateur developers/webmasters who use a cheap/free web server with bandwidth limits.
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