What is xz ?

[Gour-Gadadhara Dasa]

On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:53:17 +0530
Manish Jain <invalid.pointer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
>    Hi all, I just downloaded FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.xz and the md5
>    checksum is correct. Can someone please tell me what does that xz at the
>    end stand for ? It looks like it stands for some kind of compression
>    (gzip/bzip2/some new format), but I can't figure out exactly which one.

http://tukaani.org/xz/


Sincerely,
Gour

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