[TriLUG] Availability of bzip2 in 20 years?

[John Mitchell]

On 11/25/06, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
<snip> I'm considering backing up to bzip2 instead of gzip (.tgz) to
pack more on a single DVD. <end snip>

Steve, you are missing something here. In 20 years you will not have a
device that is capable of "reading" a DVD. (That assumes that the
plastic disk is still in working order also.)
   Not counting one in the closet, do you still have a 5 1/4" flopply
drive on your PC? That is 20 year old technology. The IBM 3.5" flopply
came into being only 19 years ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_System/2
   I don't even want to think about all those 20 years old back-up tapes!  :)

john mitchell