From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 27 10:09:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA08958 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:09:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA08947 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:09:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id SAA03920; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 18:53:55 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199602271753.SAA03920@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: OK, so what would YOU like to see on that second CD? To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 18:53:55 +0100 (MET) Cc: jerry@border.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "John Fieber" at Feb 27, 96 10:33:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Jerry Kendall wrote: > > > Why not. If you build your kernel to support 'gzip' type executables, it > > will run them... Hence, you still have your 'live CD'.. Maybe I am > > missing something....? > > Yes. You can't compile compressed source code. Its the source code that > I don't want to waste precious hard drive space with. A call for compressed file systems... Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================