Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Where does 'vmlinuz' come from? | | From | Doug McNaught <> | | Date | 12 Dec 2001 20:47:51 -0500 |
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Alon Altman <alon@vipe.technion.ac.il> writes:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, J Sloan wrote: > > > Pozsar Balazs wrote: > > > > > This is not a bugreport, but a simple question: :) > > > where does the term vmlinuz come from? > > > > compressed vmlinux = vmlinux.z -> vmlinuz? > > Yes, but I think he wanted to know where 'vmlinux' came from... what does > the "vm" stand for? Virtual Memory?
Yes. The kernel binary on ancient AT&T versions was called 'unix'. When Berkeley wrote a new kernel with virtual memory, they called it 'vmunix'. So naturally the Linux kernel is 'vmlinux' and the compressed version is 'vmlinuz' as above.
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