From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Gnome Boxes
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:18:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s7lqop7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EC08C613-5337-447F-A942-48247F8F520C@lepiller.eu> (Julien Lepiller's message of "Thu, 11 Feb 2021 06:37:03 -0500")
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’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-18 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-09 13:58 Gnome Boxes Adriano Peluso
2021-02-11 11:37 ` Julien Lepiller
2021-02-18 17:18 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-02-18 18:10 ` Julien Lepiller
2021-02-18 19:56 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-02-18 21:22 ` Julien Lepiller
2021-02-22 5:39 ` Evan Rowley
2021-02-23 2:20 ` Installing via iso.xz, really best idea? -- was " Bengt Richter
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