Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:21:08 +0100 (CET) | From | Luigi Genoni <> | Subject | Re: Where does 'vmlinuz' come from? |
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On old Unix systems the kernel was named VMUNIZ, and so the first linux systems used vmlinuz, and that came into tradition
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? > > cu > > jjs > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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