Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Dec 1997 20:20:17 -0800 (PST) | From | Jauder Ho <> | Subject | RE: OFFTOPIC: Re: bzip2 for kernel dists? |
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hey the .gz are there. it's left as an excercise for people to find bzip. I don't personally use it myself so I don't really have a vested interest in this.
--Jauder
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, ADAM Sulmicki wrote:
> > -> look on kernel.org... they are there. > ->> So, bzip2 yeilds better compression, it's free (no patent restrictions on > ->> algs, etc), and it's available in binary & source form for Linux & a number > ->> of other OSs. What's keeping kernels from being distributed like this? > > Yeah, but when one converts everything to different format, especially one > which unlike gunzip, is not extermely popular and not used for years, > I would expect to find those bzip2 utitiles on, say, > linux.kernel.org:/pub/linux/util in tar or tgz format. I spend around > half of hour trying to look for them to just find them only in rpm > format and then the dumb rpm refused to install it since I did not like > the output of uname (well a syscall probably) which said I have E86 > architecutre (instead of standard ix86 or whatever). > > > -Adam >
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