Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750792AbWIUUc7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:32:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751543AbWIUUc7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:32:59 -0400 Received: from mail.gurulabs.com ([67.137.148.7]:744 "EHLO mail.gurulabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750792AbWIUUc7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:32:59 -0400 Subject: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs? From: Dax Kelson To: Linux kernel Cc: Linus Torvalds Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:32:57 -0600 Message-Id: <1158870777.24172.23.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 (2.6.3-1.fc5.5) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1188 Lines: 30 Today as I was watching the linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2 slowly download I thought it would be nice if it could be made smaller. The 7zip program/algorithm is free software (LGPL) and can be obtained from http://www.7-zip.org/ and it is distributed with several distributions (it is in Fedora Core 6 extras for example). Here are the numbers: ls -al -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 240138240 Sep 21 13:55 linux-2.6.18.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34180796 Sep 21 13:42 linux-2.6.18.tar.7z -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41863580 Sep 21 13:45 linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52467357 Sep 21 13:13 linux-2.6.18.tar.gz ls -alh -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 230M Sep 21 13:55 linux-2.6.18.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33M Sep 21 13:42 linux-2.6.18.tar.7z -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40M Sep 21 13:45 linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51M Sep 21 13:13 linux-2.6.18.tar.gz Smaller the better, especially with the international audience. Dax Kelson - 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/