XZ is just awesome (was: Re: kernel compression with lzma)

[William Immendorf]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Tobias Gasser<lfs at ebp-gasser.ch> wrote:
> kernel 2.26.30 allows compression with gz, bz2 and lzma
>
> gzip and bzip2 are fine with the installed tools.
> lzma is missing in the book.
This is a must have package in the book, then.
> my current kernel-sizes:
> gzip            1913696
> bzip2           1820944
> lzma            1605712
>
>
> lzma from both packages result in the same size.
>
So THAT'S AWESOME!
> even as the xz is stil beta, i propose to include the xz and not lzma > in
> the book to be able to compress the kernel with any method the user
> wishes. (alphabetically after Vim as no dependecies exist)
Good idea, because XZ IS THE AWESOMEST COMPRESSON FORMAT, EVER!

(Sorry if I used capital letters, I had to exergate.)

William