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’.