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Linux doesn't have a standard file extension for executable files, and that wouldn't have been good for this meme.
.elf is the closest thing we have.
Eh, .elf is more for really low level ELF files, so a program would just be named program, a kernel would be named kernel.elf
i dont know how to tell you this, but vmlinuz-linux is not an elf file
elf is for programs running under a kernel