Re: 2.3.0 kernel - announce??
Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Wed, 12 May 1999 22:38:57 +1000
Riley Williams writes:
> Hi there.
>
> >> I just "stumbled" across linux-2.3.0.tar.bz2. So what's in it?? :)
>
> > Same as in 2.2.8.
>
> In that case, why does 2.2.8 and 2.3.0 have different sizes, and
> different times for the most recently modified file therein?
>
> Courtesy my Linux Kernel Versions list:
>
> Q> 11,212,277 Tue 11 May 1999 18:37 linux-2.2.8.tar.bz2
> Q> 11,208,792 Tue 11 May 1999 21:05 linux-2.3.0.tar.bz2
>
> Note that the 2.3.0 archive is some 3.5k smaller than the 2.2.8 one,
> and also has at least one file that was updated over 2 hours later
> than any file in the 2.2.8 archive...
% bunzip2 -c linux-2.3.0.tar.bz2 | wc
1895964 6906721 58388480
% bunzip2 -c ../v2.2/linux-2.2.8.tar.bz2 |wc
1895964 6906721 58388480
So, uncompressed they are the same size.
Regards,
Richard....
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