From: Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com>
To: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:32:57 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1158870777.24172.23.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> (raw)
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
next reply other threads:[~2006-09-21 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-21 20:32 Dax Kelson [this message]
[not found] ` <20060921204250 .GN13641@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
2006-09-21 20:42 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-09-21 21:40 ` Dax Kelson
2006-09-22 14:00 ` Lennart Sorensen
[not found] ` <20060921171747.9ae2b42e.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-21 21:17 ` Sean
2006-09-21 21:41 ` Dax Kelson
2006-09-21 21:50 ` Bob Copeland
[not found] ` <20060921175717.272c58ee.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-21 21:57 ` Sean
2006-09-21 22:00 ` David Lang
2006-09-21 22:24 ` Dave Jones
2006-09-21 22:16 ` David Lang
2006-09-21 22:40 ` Dave Jones
2006-09-21 22:34 ` David Lang
[not found] ` <20060921193823.ec49d446.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-21 23:38 ` Sean
[not found] ` <Pin e.LNX.4.63.0609211455570.17238@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>
2006-09-21 22:25 ` Sean
[not found] ` <20060921182554.23044ca3.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-21 22:20 ` David Lang
2006-09-21 21:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-09-22 14:00 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-09-22 16:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-09-22 16:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-22 16:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-09-22 17:41 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2006-09-22 18:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-09-22 18:19 ` Michael Tokarev
2006-09-22 18:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-09-25 11:51 ` Paulo Marques
2006-09-25 15:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-10-02 3:35 Drew Scott Daniels
2006-10-02 3:32 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-10-02 3:35 ` Willy Tarreau
[not found] ` <Pi ne.LNX.4.63.0610012205280.28534@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>
2006-10-02 5:11 ` David Lang
2006-10-02 5:49 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-10-02 15:16 ` Phillip Susi
2006-10-02 15:48 ` David Lang
2006-10-02 20:20 ` Phillip Susi
2006-10-02 20:12 ` David Lang
2006-10-02 20:35 ` Willy Tarreau
[not found] ` <2006 1002203527.GA585@1wt.eu>
2006-10-02 21:49 ` Sean
[not found] ` <20061002174938.bb82027d.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-10-02 21:42 ` David Lang
2006-10-03 2:48 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-10-03 10:28 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-03 18:24 ` Phillip Susi
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