I'm updating my Desktop and curious as to the reason for the huge difference in size, between the oldest kernel, which will be removed, and the newest one that will be installed. Question: Did they remove a lot of things from the kernel or rewrite it much more efficiently? TIA.
Installing: kernel i686 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5 updates 15 M
Removing: kernel i686 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 installed 40 M
Lanny Marcus wrote:
I'm updating my Desktop and curious as to the reason for the huge difference in size, between the oldest kernel, which will be removed, and the newest one that will be installed. Question: Did they remove a lot of things from the kernel or rewrite it much more efficiently? TIA.
Installing: kernel i686 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5 updates 15 M
That's the download size - the size of the compressed RPM package.
Removing: kernel i686 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 installed 40 M
and that's the installed size once the package has been decompressed.
So no change in size, really :)
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Ned Sliderned@unixmail.co.uk wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
I'm updating my Desktop and curious as to the reason for the huge difference in size, between the oldest kernel, which will be removed, and the newest one that will be installed. Question: Did they remove a lot of things from the kernel or rewrite it much more efficiently? TIA.
Installing: kernel i686 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5 updates 15 M
That's the download size - the size of the compressed RPM package.
Removing: kernel i686 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 installed 40 M
and that's the installed size once the package has been decompressed.
So no change in size, really :)
Thank you for the explanation! Excellent compression. :-)
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Lanny Marcus -
Ned Slider