Re: vmlinuz

Trevor Johnson (trevor@jpj.net)
Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:25:36 -0400 (EDT)

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> What on earth does "vmlinuz" mean?
> I can figure the "linu" means Linux, and the 'z' means it's compressed, but what
> does the "vm" mean anyhow?

According to http://vmunix.com/, "vmunix was the name of the original BSD
kernel that contained virtual memory support (2.9BSD)."
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