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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
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To: John Reiser <jreiser@BitWagon.com>
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Subject: Re: tighter compression for x86 kernels
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On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, John Reiser wrote:

> Beta release v1.11 of the UPX executable compressor http://upx.tsx.org
> offers new, tighter re-compression of compressed Linux kernels for x86.
> Additional space savings of about 15% have been seen using
> "upx --best vmlinuz" (example: 617431 ==> 525099, saving 92332 bytes).
> Both source (GPLv2) and pre-compiled binary for x86 are available.
               ^^^^^
That's not true. Read
  http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx-license.html


> [I'm not subscribed to this mailing list, so CC: or mail me if appropriate.]

cu,
Adrian

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