Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | (Andrew Walker) | Subject | Re: OFFTOPIC: Re: bzip2 for kernel dists? | Date | Mon, 15 Dec 1997 14:12:39 +0100 (MET) |
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Mike Kilburn wrote: > > > Hmm.. I just tried bzip2ing vmlinux.. Not a big improvement. > > Big is a relative term. If you are 20K short of including something you want > then 60K extra is big. Also look at what you save for the compressed root > file system not just the kernel image. > > > Tell me, in your routers could your clients stand a longer then 1 minute > > wait just for kernel decompression (that would not be a poor guess at the > > decompress time on a 386/25...).. > > 1 minute booting would be a big problem but the slowest cpu we will ever use > now is a DX4-100.
You maybe, but there's plenty of 386/16 and 386/25 boxes out there running Linux (not to mention 8088/8086 boxes, but that's another story). You can't just ignore these machines/users.
-Andy
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