Comment by anthk

pigz it's damn fast on compressing. Also, a Vax with NetBSD can run gzip. So here is it. Go try these new fancy formats on a Vax, I dare you.

And, yes, I prefer LZMA over the obsolete Bzip2 any day, but GZIP it's like the ZIP of free formats modulo packaging, which it's the job of TAR.