From: Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apiszcz@lucidpixels.com
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 20:56:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1148237777.28518.0.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0605212026570.6083@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 20:40 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> > Was curious as to which utilities would offer the best compression ratio for
> > the kernel source, I thought it'd be bzip2 or rar but lzma wins, roughly 6 MiB
> > smaller than bzip2.
> >
> You forgot:
> - .7z 7zip
> - .j JAR (www.arjsoftware.com)
> - .ice LHICE (some sort of "brother" to lharc aka lzh)
> - .ace ACE (www.winace.com)
> - UPX (yes!, you just need to put '#!/\n' at the front)
> - .cab MS CAB (use winace)
> - .bh BlackHole
> - .pak PKARC 2.51
> - .sqz SqueezeIt
> - "LZEXE"
and also lzx, which was, in the amige days the best there was, allthough
i know of no compressor for linux
>
> ftp://camelot.spsl.nsc.ru/pub/win32/arc/ - you'll find some there
> happy packing :)
>
> > 38064 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rz
>
> - is this rzip with _maximum_ distance?
>
>
> Jan Engelhardt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-21 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-21 14:35 Linux Kernel Source Compression Justin Piszcz
2006-05-21 18:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-21 18:56 ` Kasper Sandberg [this message]
2006-05-21 19:28 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-05-22 2:05 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2006-05-21 19:03 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-21 21:00 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-05-21 21:22 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-21 21:42 ` Sam Vilain
2006-05-21 21:57 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-21 22:22 ` Sam Vilain
2006-05-21 22:29 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-22 19:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-21 21:59 ` Diego Calleja
2006-05-22 18:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-22 19:07 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-22 19:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-22 19:15 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-22 20:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-22 20:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-22 21:00 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-22 21:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-22 21:11 ` Joshua Hudson
2006-05-23 13:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-23 2:16 ` Nuri Jawad
2006-05-23 2:55 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2006-05-23 14:15 ` Ivan Novick
2006-05-23 14:23 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-05-23 14:47 ` Julian Seward
2006-05-23 16:35 ` Nuri Jawad
2006-05-25 11:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-31 22:51 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-05-23 13:38 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-23 15:28 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-31 22:56 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-05-26 4:11 ` Bruce Guenter
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