Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Dec 2001 02:03:35 +0200 (IST) | From | Alon Altman <> | Subject | Re: Where does 'vmlinuz' come from? |
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, J Sloan wrote:
> Pozsar Balazs wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > 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?
Alon
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