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Ryan Gordon Wants To Bring Universal Binaries To Linux

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. I'm not here for the lecture by westlake · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Or maybe it's proprietary. Some people are willing to compromise on freedom.

    I would define my freedom as a user as the freedom to install any app under any license without someone looking over my shoulder.

    OSX makes this easy. Windows makes this easy. Linux makes this hard.

  2. Re:It appears you don't play video games by tepples · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I neither develop nor use video game software

    Satisfied. I'll just assume that "I don't care about non-free software" posts come with an unwritten "I play no video games."