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[-] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago

tar.gz is considered vintage

oh no

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

get-with-the-times-old-man.tar.xz

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

You don't mess with my awkward to use compression format. I'm not learning another one.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

does-it-really-matter-what-you-compress-your-tarballs-with.tar.rar

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

B-b-bu-but I use Arch... b-btw...

[-] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

Last time I ran into .tar.gz, I was programming in COBOL!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Go to the releases page of any Github repository. Source code is served in a .tar.gz archive.

Look for Linux software, a lot of its sourcecode and packages are compressed into a .tar.gz archive.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Neat! I just started learning a little Linux to start up my little Pi home server. It’s been very interesting! And complicated. I am not good at docker. I have had zero success porting-any-tainers.

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