[Tfug] Why is Linux Kernal Image Compressed

[Jude Nelson]

When Linux was still young (i.e. pre-1.0), many users told Linus they wanted
to save space on their disks and wanted him to create a way for the kernel
to be stored as a compressed image that could unfurl itself in RAM.  He
complied with their requests, and no one has bothered to remove this
feature.  At least, that's what's in his autobiography...

Jude Nelson

On 1/6/07, Felix Tilley <fetilley at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> The Linux kernel image on disk is compressed, usually with bzip2.
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> Why is this?
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> Do other unices compress the kernel image on disk?
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> Felix in Tucson
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