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SubjectRe: Where's the bzip2 compressed linux-kernel patch?
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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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Regards Michael Buesch [ http://www.tuxsoft.de.vu ]
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