Ryan Gordon Wants To Bring Universal Binaries To Linux

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Ryan Gordon Wants To Bring Universal Binaries To Linux

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 25, 2009 @12:12AM from the grossly-obese-binaries dept.

wisesifu writes "One of the interesting features of Mac OS X is its 'universal binaries' feature that allows a single binary file to run natively on both PowerPC and Intel x86 platforms. While this comes at a cost of a larger binary file, it's convenient on the end-user and on software vendors for distributing their applications. While Linux has lacked such support for fat binaries, Ryan Gordon has decided this should be changed."

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Gee, just 14 years by Anonymous Coward · 2009-10-25 00:15 · Score: 4, Funny

after the diminse of NeXTStep!
(c)Innovation!!(tm)(R)
Re:Linking problems by martin-boundary · 2009-10-25 00:30 · Score: 3, Funny

Could this technology also help binaries to link against multiple versions of standard libraries (glibc, libstdc++)?

I think FatELF is too skinny for that. You want SantaELF, which links all those libraries statically in each binary...
Re:Only useful for non-free applications by selven · 2009-10-25 01:30 · Score: 3, Funny

Thank god English is free of that stupid distinction.
Re:Only useful for non-free applications by meringuoid · 2009-10-25 01:37 · Score: 5, Funny

Free has meant 'no charge' for a lot longer than it has meant 'free (as in liberated) software'.
Yes, that's right. That's why a 'freeman' was someone you didn't have to pay for his work, whereas a 'slave' was, er...

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Re:Use the source, Luke! by Thuktun · 2009-10-25 03:14 · Score: 4, Funny

Now why would I want to do anything that fucktarded, when I can just use the source? And if I needed cross-platform that badly, I can always ship ONE java app with ONE instance of data. The '90s called, they want their obsolete fat and universal binaries back.
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