Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Buesch <> | Subject | Re: Where's the bzip2 compressed linux-kernel patch? | Date | Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:27:10 +0200 |
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On Sunday 19 October 2003 23:04, Willy Tarreau wrote: > I don't know if people have already tested LZO and NRV (used in UPX). > Perhaps LZO might already be a little better than gzip, while faster and > with less code. NRV is surely better, but is not open source IIRC. Perhaps > Markus would agree to release a free NRV decompressor if asked kindly ?
If NRV is closed source (I don't know), then we would need a free compressor _and_ a free decompressor. Because I don't think we should go and compile (compress) the kernel image with some closed-source software. 8-)
> Regards, > Willy
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