On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Tobias Gasser<[email protected]> wrote: > kernel 2.26.30 allows compression with gz, bz2 and lzma > > gzip and bzip2 are fine with the installed tools. > lzma is missing in the book. This is a must have package in the book, then. > my current kernel-sizes: > gzip 1913696 > bzip2 1820944 > lzma 1605712 > > > lzma from both packages result in the same size. > So THAT'S AWESOME! > even as the xz is stil beta, i propose to include the xz and not lzma > in > the book to be able to compress the kernel with any method the user > wishes. (alphabetically after Vim as no dependecies exist) Good idea, because XZ IS THE AWESOMEST COMPRESSON FORMAT, EVER!
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