Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs? | From | Dax Kelson <> | Date | Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:32:57 -0600 |
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Today as I was watching the linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2 slowly download I thought it would be nice if it could be made smaller.
The 7zip program/algorithm is free software (LGPL) and can be obtained from http://www.7-zip.org/ and it is distributed with several distributions (it is in Fedora Core 6 extras for example).
Here are the numbers:
ls -al -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 240138240 Sep 21 13:55 linux-2.6.18.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34180796 Sep 21 13:42 linux-2.6.18.tar.7z -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41863580 Sep 21 13:45 linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52467357 Sep 21 13:13 linux-2.6.18.tar.gz
ls -alh -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 230M Sep 21 13:55 linux-2.6.18.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33M Sep 21 13:42 linux-2.6.18.tar.7z -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40M Sep 21 13:45 linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51M Sep 21 13:13 linux-2.6.18.tar.gz
Smaller the better, especially with the international audience.
Dax Kelson
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