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[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 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.