From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 2 07:52:02 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E274106566B for ; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 07:52:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f182.google.com (mail-qy0-f182.google.com [209.85.216.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D3458FC0C for ; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 07:52:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk38 with SMTP id 38so2590968qyk.13 for ; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:52:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=pWOWACOcGx8YcG2ng0lAa17RmIvyKdqBY7T7GPJkkxE=; b=OBizgeU4T/MyVp5Re0TZkSLvu0mMxpfZLLCjbY1maNTwFg+GF+zSq5BD5ueh0+535i T7jRawI7wpEAvKYfLPiq6prU6iCnc4fDN5pOSUP1kqfFJAZ0MZV2RZ9/UE46Nj8hZ9mC EvSBGoeimca3FCqQ6SQonZJX17jIw3QEBAw24= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.196.1 with SMTP id ee1mr3119740qab.109.1309593121572; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:52:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.47.148 with HTTP; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 00:52:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E0EB955.7090308@gmail.com> References: <4E0EB955.7090308@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 03:52:01 -0400 Message-ID: From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk To: Manish Jain Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is xz ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 07:52:02 -0000 On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Manish Jain wrote: > > Hi all, > I just downloaded FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.xz and the md5 > checksum is correct. Can someone please tell me what does that xz at > the end stand for ? It looks like it stands for some kind of > compression (gzip/bzip2/some new format), but I can't figure out > exactly which one. > Thank you & > Regards > Manish Jain > [1]invalid.pointer@gmail.com > > References > > 1. mailto:invalid.pointer@gmail.com > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Archive_formats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(file_format) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk