Re: Where does 'vmlinuz' come from?

From: Alon Altman (alon@vipe.technion.ac.il)
Date: Wed Dec 12 2001 - 19:03:35 EST

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On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, J Sloan wrote:

> Pozsar Balazs wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is not a bugreport, but a simple question: :)
> > where does the term vmlinuz come from?
>
> compressed vmlinux = vmlinux.z -> vmlinuz?

Yes, but I think he wanted to know where 'vmlinux' came from... what does
the "vm" stand for? Virtual Memory?

Alon

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