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Jari Soderholm (kernel@atmweb.ntc.nokia.com)
Mon, 25 Aug 1997 10:50:59 +0300 (EET DST)

I tested a new free bzip2 compression program with linux 2.1.51

It gives quite nice savings and it is free , so
cuold we use it ?

gzipped kernel is 8670894

and bzip2 makes it into 7075932

Jari