Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 03:10:11 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD's momentum and future prospects Message-ID: <20021223011011.GB582@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20021222194751.GA3140@papagena.rockefeller.edu> 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>
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On 2002-12-22 14:47, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> 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
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