On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 09:08 , List Subscriptions wrote:
> The primary advantage to providing the archive in bzip2
> (instead of gzip)
> format is the reduction of download time; saving storage space
> is a much
> less significant issue.
>
> Whether or not you save space with the archive is a separate issue, IMO
> fairly insignificant given the difficulty in finding a new drive UNDER
> 40GB.
>
> (Said by someone who just installed a 7.3.2 demo on a 16MB P-90 laptop
> running RH70)
Mac OS X v10.1.5 on G3 233MHz desktop, 160MB RAM, 2MB VRAM,
4(four)GB hard drive.
Postgresql 7.2.2, awaiting 7.3.3
Still up to 6 months (or more) away from upgrading to a 15.x" G4
PowerBook.
C'est la vie.
- Joel
