Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932096AbWEWOP3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 10:15:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932110AbWEWOP3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 10:15:29 -0400 Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:395 "EHLO out3.smtp.messagingengine.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932096AbWEWOP2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 10:15:28 -0400 Message-Id: <1148393727.14381.262121289@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: noLy0q9XNLalGWAIZTqQbBOltX/3cHDWzf9OACua9jbx 1148393727 From: "Ivan Novick" To: "Nuri Jawad" , "Alistair John Strachan" Cc: "Jan Engelhardt" , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, julian@valgrind.org Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 5022 (F2.72; T1.15; A1.62; B3.04; Q3.03) References: <200605222015.01980.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <200605222200.18351.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 15:15:27 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 714 Lines: 19 cc'ing Julian Seward the author of bzip2 ----- Original message ----- 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? - 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/