Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965224AbWEaWuA (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 18:50:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965223AbWEaWt7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 18:49:59 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:1449 "EHLO pixels.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965226AbWEaWt7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 18:49:59 -0400 Message-ID: <447E1E04.5060509@tmr.com> Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 18:51:48 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060405 SeaMonkey/1.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nuri Jawad CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression References: <200605222015.01980.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <200605222200.18351.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1384 Lines: 31 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 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. - 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/