On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Rolf Brudeseth wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:52:06AM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote:
> Why is the zImage called vmlinuz (see above). Surely this must confuse more
> people than just me. Above you say you provide it and below you do not.
Tradition.
Originally the UNIX kernel images was called `unix'.
When UNIX got virtual memory support, it became `vmunix'.
Similarly, the Linux image was called `vmlinux', and when it got compression
support (either implicit or explicit), people use `vmlinuz'.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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