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Re:Bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2 by skrebbel on Sunday February 02, 2025 @10:10AM (#42909102)
> There is no reason to use gzip these days other than backwards compatibility

And forward compatibility. The Lindy effect says gzip is likelier to be widely available across platforms and tools in the long term than zstd.

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Re:Bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2 by lazide on Sunday February 02, 2025 @03:23PM (#42911438)
Zip beats all on that front.
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Re:Bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2 by skrebbel on Monday February 03, 2025 @07:02AM (#42917337)
Yep!
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