Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751255AbWEWCQQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 22:16:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751256AbWEWCQQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 22:16:16 -0400 Received: from leitseite.net ([213.239.214.51]:61385 "EHLO mail.leitseite.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751255AbWEWCQP (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 22:16:15 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 04:16:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Nuri Jawad X-X-Sender: lkml@pc To: Alistair John Strachan Cc: Jan Engelhardt , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression In-Reply-To: <200605222200.18351.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: References: <200605222015.01980.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <200605222200.18351.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 658 Lines: 18 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? Regards, Nuri - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/