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Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:47:51 -0500
From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD's momentum and future prospects
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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

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