Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 31 May 2006 18:51:48 -0400 | | From | Bill Davidsen <> | | Subject | Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression |
| |
Nuri Jawad wrote: > Hi, > just wanted to remark that I never liked that bzip was replaced by bzip2 > (were there license issues?) since bzip's compression was/is often > stronger: > > 39843104 Mar 28 09:33 linux-2.6.15.7.tar.bz2 > 39423739 Mar 28 09:33 linux-2.6.15.7.tar.bz > > Not a big difference in this case but still a step back. I for once am > keeping my bzip binary.. does anyone know where the source can still be > found?
I know I have a copy backed up, but I'm rather disorganized at the moment, having moved two out-of-town offices into this one, after spending 12 years on a ten week contract... but I doubt you want it, it's slow as hell and violates all manner of patents. Mind you, I think the patents are held by IBM, so they might be negotiable, but I think the original is dead. Used either fractal or arithmetic compression IIRC. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> Obscure bug of 2004: BASH BUFFER OVERFLOW - if bash is being run by a normal user and is setuid root, with the "vi" line edit mode selected, and the character set is "big5," an off-by-one errors occurs during wildcard (glob) expansion.
- 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/
|  |