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From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>
To: "Juha-Matti Liukkonen" <jml@cubical.fi>, <chad@DCFinc.com>
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Subject: Re: functional differences between variants
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:21:42 +1000
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Designing that stuff is a bit beyond my level of comprehension :)
If I get a custom build to run at all I'll be happy .... at the rate 
FreeBSD 4.3 is downloading it will be next week before I can
even try. Maybe oneday we'll have DSL or something in OZ
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Juha-Matti Liukkonen" <jml@cubical.fi>
To: <chad@DCFinc.com>
Cc: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>; <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: functional differences between variants


> Hi,
> 
> talking of squeezing bits, bzip2 can stuff the kernel and filesystem
> images into quite a bit smaller space than gzip, giving maybe an extra
> 200 KB on the floppy. I don't think it would be too difficult to make
> /boot/loader to support kernel.bz2 as well; libbz2.a comes with the
> bzip2 port and is quite simple to use.
> 
> - Juha
> 
> "Chad R. Larson" wrote:
> > 
> > As I recall, Doug Young wrote:
> > > Also, is there a reason why picoBSD development still appears to be
> > > concentrated on older versions of FreeBSD instead of something in the
> > > 4.x line ??
> > 
> > The kernel in the 4.x line is considerably larger than 2.2.x or
> > 3.5.x, and has some features (like improved SMP support) that is of
> > little use for Pico systems.  When you're trying to smoosh stuff
> > down to fit on a floppy, every little bit (byte?) counts.
> > 
> >         -crl
> > --
> > Chad R. Larson (CRL15)   602-953-1392   Brother, can you paradigm?
> > chad@dcfinc.com         chad@larsons.org          larson1@home.com
> > DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207
> > 
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> 
> --
> Juha-Matti Liukkonen, Cubical Solutions Ltd
> Phone: +358(0)405280142
> Email: jml@cubical.fi
> 


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