Messages in this thread | | | From | "Jordan Mendelson" <> | Subject | bzip2 for kernel dists? | Date | Wed, 10 Dec 1997 12:55:41 -0500 |
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Has anyone thought of using bzip2 to compress the newer kernels instead of gzip on linux.kernel.org & co? Even though I hate the name (come on, do I really want to type that stupid 2?), it yeilds better compression than gzip. It's being used in a few projects, egcs & glibc are the only ones I can think of.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40744960 Dec 10 12:44 linux-2.1.72.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9628900 Dec 10 12:44 linux-2.1.72.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7822957 Dec 10 12:44 linux-2.1.72.tar.bz2
Maybe put both bz2 & gzip on so people who have bzip2 can uncompress it all?
Just a thought..
Jordan
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