Re: Where does 'vmlinuz' come from?

• Next message: Dmitri.Kassatkine@nokia.com: "RE: Bluetooth support on Linux"
• Previous message: Russell King: "Re: USB not processing APM suspend event properly?"
• In reply to: Alon Altman: "Re: Where does 'vmlinuz' come from?"
• Next in thread: Luigi Genoni: "Re: Where does 'vmlinuz' come from?"
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

Alon Altman schrieb:
>
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, J Sloan wrote:
>
> > Pozsar Balazs wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > This is not a bugreport, but a simple question: :)
> > > where does the term vmlinuz come from?
> >
> > compressed vmlinux = vmlinux.z -> vmlinuz?
>
> Yes, but I think he wanted to know where 'vmlinux' came from... what does
> the "vm" stand for? Virtual Memory?
>

Well, I would guess: VM in this context: virtual machine
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

• Next message: Dmitri.Kassatkine@nokia.com: "RE: Bluetooth support on Linux"
• Previous message: Russell King: "Re: USB not processing APM suspend event properly?"
• In reply to: Alon Altman: "Re: Where does 'vmlinuz' come from?"
• Next in thread: Luigi Genoni: "Re: Where does 'vmlinuz' come from?"
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Dec 15 2001 - 21:00:25 EST