Re: kernel hugitude

Alessandro Sigala (sansig@freenet.hut.fi)
Tue, 23 Apr 1996 15:24:53 +0200 (MET DST)


On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Ben Wing wrote:

> A milestone has been reached -- kernel 1.3.94 (compressed even!) is now more
> than twice as big as kernel 1.3.0.
>
#ifdef CAN_JOKE
If the disk space is the problem,
you may do a lossy-compression on the kernel sources to get a
compression factor of over 98%.
#endif

<another_joke>
Anyone is translating Linux into the nice COBOL language ?
</another_joke>

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