Linux Kernel Source Compression

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>]

Was curious as to which utilities would offer the best compression ratio 
for the kernel source, I thought it'd be bzip2 or rar but lzma wins, 
roughly 6 MiB smaller than bzip2.

$ du -sk * | sort -n
33520   linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma
33760   linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rar
38064   linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rz
39472   linux-2.6.16.17.tar.szip
39520   linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz
39936   linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz2
40000   linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bicom
40656   linux-2.6.16.17.tar.sit
47664   linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lha
49968   linux-2.6.16.17.tar.dzip
50000   linux-2.6.16.17.tar.gz
51344   linux-2.6.16.17.tar.arj
57552   linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzo
57984   linux-2.6.16.17.tar.F
81136   linux-2.6.16.17.tar.Z
94544   linux-2.6.16.17.tar.zoo
101216  linux-2.6.16.17.tar.arc
228608  linux-2.6.16.17.tar

$ du -sh * | sort -n
 33M    linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma
 33M    linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rar
 37M    linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rz
 39M    linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bicom
 39M    linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz
 39M    linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz2
 39M    linux-2.6.16.17.tar.szip
 40M    linux-2.6.16.17.tar.sit
 47M    linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lha
 49M    linux-2.6.16.17.tar.dzip
 49M    linux-2.6.16.17.tar.gz
 50M    linux-2.6.16.17.tar.arj
 56M    linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzo
 57M    linux-2.6.16.17.tar.F
 79M    linux-2.6.16.17.tar.Z
 92M    linux-2.6.16.17.tar.zoo
 99M    linux-2.6.16.17.tar.arc
223M    linux-2.6.16.17.tar

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