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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: John Reiser <jreiser@BitWagon.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tighter compression for x86 kernels
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 00:15:13 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.31.0012202338040.21463-100000@pluto.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A412C8D.59DDD9F2@BitWagon.com>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2000-12-20 23:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-20 22:02 tighter compression for x86 kernels John Reiser
2000-12-20 23:15 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2000-12-20 23:22   ` Frank v Waveren
2000-12-20 23:27     ` Jens Müller
2000-12-21 17:08   ` John Reiser
2001-01-02 22:25 Rob Landley

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