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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: OldAdamUser2 on February 28, 2010, 09:38:09 PM

Title: bzImage-upxed
Post by: OldAdamUser2 on February 28, 2010, 09:38:09 PM

I'm thinking about upgrading from TC 2.3 to the latest release and was downloading from

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/release/distribution_files/

What is bzImage-upxed?

Title: Re: bzImage-upxed
Post by: althalus on March 01, 2010, 03:08:57 AM

Smaller and quicker version of bzImage, but may not play so well with certain hardware.

Title: Re: bzImage-upxed
Post by: bmarkus on March 01, 2010, 03:51:44 AM

It doesn't work on Acer Aspire 5720Z notebook.

Title: Re: bzImage-upxed
Post by: dentonlt on April 19, 2010, 05:07:05 AM

Hmm. I've recently had some annoying extension/program crashes (notably oo2, which never gave problems until the last few weeks). I figured it's b/c libraries are changing.

What sort of hardware issues are we talking about? Kernel panic on boot, I assume? I'll have to switch back and see ...

Title: Re: bzImage-upxed
Post by: curaga on April 19, 2010, 05:21:09 AM

On some machines ACPI doesn't work with it, so it may prevent software shutdown, among other things.

Title: Re: bzImage-upxed
Post by: dentonlt on May 07, 2010, 06:40:27 PM

Okey dokey.

It seems my OO2 issues were due to using Xorg, not bzimage-upxed. I've dropped the former.