From: Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>
To: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>,
Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rob@landley.net
Subject: Re: Where's the bzip2 compressed linux-kernel patch?
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:27:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200310192327.10756.mbuesch@freenet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031019210453.GE16761@alpha.home.local>
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On Sunday 19 October 2003 23:04, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> I don't know if people have already tested LZO and NRV (used in UPX).
> Perhaps LZO might already be a little better than gzip, while faster and
> with less code. NRV is surely better, but is not open source IIRC. Perhaps
> Markus would agree to release a free NRV decompressor if asked kindly ?
If NRV is closed source (I don't know), then we would need a free
compressor _and_ a free decompressor. Because I don't think we should
go and compile (compress) the kernel image with some closed-source
software. 8-)
> Regards,
> Willy
- --
Regards Michael Buesch [ http://www.tuxsoft.de.vu ]
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-19 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-18 5:18 Where's the bzip2 compressed linux-kernel patch? Rob Landley
2003-10-18 5:30 ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-18 11:39 ` Daniel Egger
2003-10-19 0:51 ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-19 10:45 ` Michael Buesch
2003-10-19 21:04 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-10-19 21:27 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2003-10-20 0:00 ` Rob Landley
2003-10-20 4:28 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-10-20 4:52 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-10-20 5:47 ` Rob Landley
2003-10-20 11:55 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-10-19 22:15 ` Rob Landley
2003-10-18 6:05 ` Erik Andersen
2003-10-18 16:43 ` Jörn Engel
2003-10-18 20:38 ` Rob Landley
2003-10-20 8:31 ` Jörn Engel
2003-10-20 9:41 ` Rob Landley
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