Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Dec 1997 14:33:21 +1300 (NZDT) | From | "Peter T. Waltenberg" <> | Subject | RE: OFFTOPIC: Re: bzip2 for kernel dists? |
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On 11-Dec-97 Jordan Mendelson wrote: >> 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
Nothing :), if you look on ftp.kernel.org you'll see all these .bz2 files.
Incidentally, scripts/patch-kernel needs updating to handle the new option.
Peter ---------------------------------- E-Mail: P.Waltenberg@irl.cri.nz Date: 12-Dec-97 Time: 14:31:28 ----------------------------------
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