Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>]

>
> 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.
>
You forgot:
  - .7z    7zip
  - .j     JAR (www.arjsoftware.com)
  - .ice   LHICE (some sort of "brother" to lharc aka lzh)
  - .ace   ACE (www.winace.com)
  -        UPX (yes!, you just need to put '#!/\n' at the front)
  - .cab   MS CAB (use winace)
  - .bh    BlackHole
  - .pak   PKARC 2.51
  - .sqz   SqueezeIt
  - "LZEXE"

ftp://camelot.spsl.nsc.ru/pub/win32/arc/ - you'll find some there
happy packing :)

> 38064   linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rz

  - is this rzip with _maximum_ distance?


Jan Engelhardt
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