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Anon can't sleep (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

tar.gz is considered vintage

oh no

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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.