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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 12:59:34 +0100
From: Daniel Cegiełka <daniel.cegielka@...il.com>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Zopfli for Owl 3.0-stable kernels
And what do you think about using pigz in Owl instead of gzip?
Currently pigz uses internally zopfli.
http://www.zlib.net/pigz/
Daniel
> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:09:02 +0400
> From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
> To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
> Subject: Zopfli for Owl 3.0-stable kernels
> Hi,
> I think we should try using Zopfli to compress Owl 3.0-stable's kernels
> better, to make them fit on their 2.88 MB "floppy" while letting us
> upgrade to newer RHEL5'ish kernels without having to exclude features.
> I think this can be as simple as building Zopfli locally right out of
> kernel.spec and having the kernel build run zopfli instead of gzip (a
> one-line patch?) I haven't tried this yet, though.
> http://code.google.com/p/zopfli/
> We don't have the size limitation in Owl-current, so I only propose this
> as a temporary measure for Owl 3.0-stable (while we maintain it).
> Alexander
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