Re: Gnome Boxes

[Julien Lepiller]

Usually compression is provided by the webserver, but maybe ours is not configured to do that. I think we're the only distro to provide compressed isos.

Le 18 février 2021 12:18:44 GMT-05:00, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> a écrit :

Hi,

Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> skribis:

 When submitting the MR to libosinfo, there were concerns that the .xz extension would cause problems with other software, so we left it out.

 I think we should provide a .iso download directly, if we want gnome boxes to propose the guix system.

We could do that but… isn’t it a bit ridiculous?  I mean, compression is
a well-known technique to reduce bandwidth usage, right?  :-)

That said, we now produce compressed ISOs IIRC, so it might be that the
extra compression layer doesn’t buy us much.  Would be worth checking!

Thanks,
Ludo’.