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Re:Tar is an ill-specified format (2015) by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @12:11AM (#26631196)
tar also wins by making it trivial to swap the compression; these days I personally favor .tar.xz or .tar.zstd over gzip.
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Re:Tar is an ill-specified format (2015) by adgjlsfhk1 on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @12:23AM (#26631243)
It's a shame zstd is Facebook, because it's really awesome.
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Re:Tar is an ill-specified format (2015) by Y_Y on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @03:03AM (#26631879)
Facebook produces tons of great FOSS, it's paid for with very dirty money, but I don't consider it tainted.
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Re:Tar is an ill-specified format (2015) by rakoo on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @06:56PM (#26641551)
And Zstd was created before the creator joined Facebook
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Re:Tar is an ill-specified format (2015) by adrianN on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @03:01AM (#26631869)
zstd is BSD 3-clause.
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