Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Jordan Mendelson" <> | Subject | RE: OFFTOPIC: Re: bzip2 for kernel dists? | Date | Thu, 11 Dec 1997 14:46:22 -0500 |
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> On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Jordan Mendelson wrote: > > > really want to type that stupid 2?), it yeilds better compression than > > gzip. It's being used in a few projects, egcs & glibc are the only ones I > > can think of. > > Gimp too.
So, bzip2 yeilds better compression, it's free (no patent restrictions on algs, etc), and it's available in binary & source form for Linux & a number of other OSs. What's keeping kernels from being distributed like this?
Jordan
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