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Re: Bug#198190: ITP: upx-ucl-beta -- an efficient live-compressor for executables (beta version)



Peter Makholm <peter@makholm.net> writes:

> Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org> writes:
>
>> I intend to package an unstable (beta) version of upx.
>> This version supports compresing of the Linux kernel and thus 
>> can be used by our boot floppies team.
>
> Isn't the kernel already compressed?

It is, using gzip.  upx repacks it using its own
algorithm, which usually results in a kernel about
100kb smaller.

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