Linux kernel: Compress hibernation image with LZO

These patches use LZO compression (already present in modern 2.6.x kernels) to reduce the amount of data that is written/read to/from disk on hibernate/thaw. This speeds up the writing stage of hibernation by the factor of about 2 to 4 and reading stage of thaw by the factor of about 2. Technically, you need just the first patch. It should apply to 2.6.35 and hopefully above.

• ftp://ftp.rexursive.com/pub/kernel/hibernate-lzo.patch.bz2
• ftp://ftp.rexursive.com/pub/kernel/hibernate-no-sync_read.patch.bz2

MPPE patches for PPP

These patches enable PPP daemon to use Microsoft encryption, which is primarily useful in conjunction with PPTP server and/or client. I'm maintainer of the archive, I don't actually develop the patches. You can download them from here:

• http://planetmirror.com/pub/mppe/
• ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/mppe/

The archive also contains quite a number of RPMS.

Related software can be found here:

• Poptop: http://www.poptop.org/
• PPTP-Client: http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/