[Tfug] Why is Linux Kernal Image Compressed

Felix Tilley fetilley at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 5 19:41:45 MST 2007

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The Linux kernel image on disk is compressed, usually with bzip2.

Why is this?

Do other unices compress the kernel image on disk?

Felix in Tucson

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