The kernel sources, both unadulterated originals ('*.orig.tar.bz2') and patched. Those patched with the 'bigphysarea' patch are '*.bphys.tar.bz2'. Those patched with the atm patches are '*.atm.tar.bz2'. The atm-patched kernels have also had the bigphysarea patch applied. The extension 'bz2' is the default extension for files compressed with 'bzip2'. This is a compressor that typically outperforms gzip by 10%, which is significant here! You can unpack one of these source trees with this command: cat filename.tar.bz2 | bzip2 -d -k | tar xf - Note that the original kernel sources, as downloaded from ftp.kernel.org, unpack into the 'linux' subdirectory. I have unpacked each one and renamed the top-level directory from 'linux' to 'linux-`uname -r`.orig' and then repacked them. To be explicit with an example: # cat linux-2.2.0.tar.bz2 | bzip2 -d -k | tar xf - # mv linux linux-2.2.0.orig # tar cf - linux-2.2.0.orig | bzip2 >linux-2.2.0.orig.tar.bz2 # rm -rf linux-2.2.0.orig This means that you can unpack all my kernel sources simultaneously without them overwriting each other. Similarly, the patched kernels will unpack into a directory name that matches the kernel version and the applied patch. Sources which have been declared obsolete are in the 'deprecated' subdirectory. They may disappear from there at any moment if disk space becomes tight. Tony Wildish. 26/01/99