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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Last time I ran into .tar.gz, I was programming in COBOL!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.