From: "Peter Wächtler" <pwaechtler@loewe-komp.de>
To: Alon Altman <alon@vipe.technion.ac.il>
Cc: J Sloan <jjs@lexus.com>, Pozsar Balazs <pozsy@sch.bme.hu>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Where does 'vmlinuz' come from?
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:39:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C188567.5791CF61@loewe-komp.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0112130202480.21624-100000@alon1.dhs.org>
Alon Altman schrieb:
>
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, J Sloan wrote:
>
> > Pozsar Balazs wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > This is not a bugreport, but a simple question: :)
> > > where does the term vmlinuz come from?
> >
> > compressed vmlinux = vmlinux.z -> vmlinuz?
>
> Yes, but I think he wanted to know where 'vmlinux' came from... what does
> the "vm" stand for? Virtual Memory?
>
Well, I would guess: VM in this context: virtual machine
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-13 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-12 23:24 Where does 'vmlinuz' come from? Pozsar Balazs
2001-12-12 23:48 ` J Sloan
2001-12-13 0:03 ` Alon Altman
2001-12-13 1:47 ` Doug McNaught
2001-12-13 10:39 ` Peter Wächtler [this message]
2001-12-13 11:21 ` Luigi Genoni
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2001-12-13 14:40 Jesse Pollard
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