From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 22 17:10:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51A8E37B401 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 17:10:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F06B43EE5 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 17:10:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b213.otenet.gr [212.205.244.221]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBN1ACQK001225; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 03:10:13 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBN1AC91001579; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 03:10:12 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBN1AC35001578; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 03:10:12 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 03:10:11 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD's momentum and future prospects Message-ID: <20021223011011.GB582@gothmog.gr> References: <20021222034806.GA34537@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20021222064026.GA421@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <20021222065216.GA468@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <20021222172853.GC16833@gothmog.gr> <20021222194751.GA3140@papagena.rockefeller.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021222194751.GA3140@papagena.rockefeller.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2002-12-22 14:47, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > freebsd5 % ls -l /boot/kernel/kernel > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3076790 Dec 22 02:30 /boot/kernel/kernel > > linux-2.4.17 % ls -l /boot/kernel > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 733501 Feb 2 2002 kernel > > Note that linux kernels are typically compressed (ie, if you made them > using "make bzImage"). I think this is due to some constraints with > lilo -- certainly the disk space saving these days is quite > negligible, and once it's loaded it's uncompressed anyway. > Uncompressed, if I remember right, the sizes are comparable. Ah, yes, indeed... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message