Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression

Bill Davidsen
2006-05-31T22:50:00Z

Nuri Jawad wrote:
> Hi,
> just wanted to remark that I never liked that bzip was replaced by bzip2
> (were there license issues?) since bzip's compression was/is often
> stronger:
>
> 39843104 Mar 28 09:33 linux-2.6.15.7.tar.bz2
> 39423739 Mar 28 09:33 linux-2.6.15.7.tar.bz
>
> Not a big difference in this case but still a step back. I for once am
> keeping my bzip binary.. does anyone know where the source can still be
> found?

I know I have a copy backed up, but I'm rather disorganized at the
moment, having moved two out-of-town offices into this one, after
spending 12 years on a ten week contract... but I doubt you want it,
it's slow as hell and violates all manner of patents. Mind you, I think
the patents are held by IBM, so they might be negotiable, but I think
the original is dead. Used either fractal or arithmetic compression IIRC.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Obscure bug of 2004: BASH BUFFER OVERFLOW - if bash is being run by a
normal user and is setuid root, with the "vi" line edit mode selected,
and the character set is "big5," an off-by-one errors occurs during
wildcard (glob) expansion.