Matt Rice wrote:

> > Could it be that just
> > the _identification_ of the different types of kernel images was meant,
> > i.e., the difference between vmlinux, vmlinuz and bzImage kernels?
> 
> That's how I would read it.  BTW, you can tell that this objective
> description hasn't received some attention for a while; it still has
> the British spelling of utilise.

With all due respect, the spelling of »utilize« is the least of its problems.

I don't think anyone has actually used non-bzImage kernels for the last decade 
or so. Even kernels that are called »vmlinuz« are bzImage kernels nowadays, 
simply because today's kernels – at least for the mainstream distributions 
that LPI focuses on – tend to be way too big to be non-bzImage kernels. If 
people on this list get worked up about old-style network address classes, 
they should get *really* worked up about kernel binary format esoterica – at 
least the network address classes have a remnant of meaning in the Real World.

Anselm
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