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

submitted 1 year ago by to55@discuss.tchncs.de to c/greentext@lemmy.ml

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[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

.tar.gz

Vintage!

[–] mathemachristian@lemm.ee 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

tar.gz is considered vintage

oh no

[–] maor@lemmy.org.il 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

.tar.Z is even more so.