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anonova

> So, who does use xz?

Arch Linux started using lzma2 compression for their packages nearly 6 years ago!

https://www.archlinux.org/news/switching-to-xz-compression-f...

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It's very common to see xz files in Gentoo as well.

    ls /usr/portage/distfiles/      \
      | sed 's/.*[.]//g'            \
      | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r \
      | head -n 6

       3377 gz
       3051 xz
       1656 bz2
        295 zip
        194 tgz
        107 jar

Slackware's official packages are compressed with XZ, and it's been that way for a while, too. :)

* MikTeX (windows TeX/LaTeX) system started using it circa 2007. * TexLive switched, iirc, circa 2008. * ArchLinux started circa 2010. * Linux kernel 2.6.0, iirc, circa 2011(?) * Gnome switched circa 2011.

There are others but I can't remember. It's fairly common now.

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