Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:47:51 -0500 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD's momentum and future prospects Message-ID: <20021222194751.GA3140@papagena.rockefeller.edu> In-Reply-To: <20021222174108.GD16833@gothmog.gr> References: <20021222034806.GA34537@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20021222064026.GA421@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <20021222065216.GA468@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <20021222172853.GC16833@gothmog.gr>
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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. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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