Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression | From | Kasper Sandberg <> | Date | Sun, 21 May 2006 20:56:17 +0200 |
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On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 20:40 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > > Was curious as to which utilities would offer the best compression ratio for > > the kernel source, I thought it'd be bzip2 or rar but lzma wins, roughly 6 MiB > > smaller than bzip2. > > > You forgot: > - .7z 7zip > - .j JAR (www.arjsoftware.com) > - .ice LHICE (some sort of "brother" to lharc aka lzh) > - .ace ACE (www.winace.com) > - UPX (yes!, you just need to put '#!/\n' at the front) > - .cab MS CAB (use winace) > - .bh BlackHole > - .pak PKARC 2.51 > - .sqz SqueezeIt > - "LZEXE" and also lzx, which was, in the amige days the best there was, allthough i know of no compressor for linux
> > ftp://camelot.spsl.nsc.ru/pub/win32/arc/ - you'll find some there > happy packing :) > > > 38064 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rz > > - is this rzip with _maximum_ distance? > > > Jan Engelhardt
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