Re: tar.gz and tar.bz2 files of linux kernel on ftp.kernel.org

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Tarkan Erimer wrote:

> Why there are two different (tar.gz and tar.bz2) kind of compressed linux 
> kernel on ftp.kernel.org ?

<http://lwn.net/Articles/374776/>

There has been a lot of discussion about this, it was deemed to be best to 
let the users choose what version they wanted and provide both.

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