[CentOS] OT: Newest kernels much smaller in size

[Lanny Marcus]

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Ned Slider<ned at 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.  :-)