Re: OFFTOPIC: Re: bzip2 for kernel dists?
Michael Neuffer (neuffer@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de)
Mon, 15 Dec 1997 07:40:42 +0100 (MET)
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, linux kernel account wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, AndroSyn wrote:
> > While on the topic of using bzip2 why doesn't somebody
> > write bzip2 support for compressed kernel images. I don't
> > know enough about kernel internals to do it myself. But if
> > nobody wants to do it, I'll hack away....
> >
> > Laters,
> >
> > Aaron
>
> EEEK NOOOOOO!!!!!!! IEEEEEE!!!!!!!! RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> I like booting durning my lifetime!
> I also like booting on a computer with 4megs of ram..
> Bzip needs termendous amount of ram to decompress in...
Well, if he does it right, we will be able to chose.
IŽll choose bzip2 compression for my kernels and you gzip compression.
It is that easy.
Mike