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Ryan Gordon Ends FatELF Universal Binary Effort
recoiledsnake writes "A few years after the Con Kolivas fiasco, the FatELF project to implement the 'universal binaries' feature for Linux that allows a single binary file to run on multiple hardware platforms has been grounded. Ryan C. Gordon, who has ported a number of popular games and game servers to Linux, has this to say: 'It looks like the Linux kernel maintainers are frowning on the FatELF patches. Some got the idea and disagreed, some didn't seem to hear what I was saying, and some showed up just to be rude.' The launch of the project was recently discussed here. The FatELF project page and FAQ are still up."
Why have universal binaries when you have Java to do that? To do that at the binary level seems like it's pretty unnecessary. If you want performance, write it directly for that platform, and if you want universal accessibility, write it in Java. If he's doing it for his own personal enjoyment, that's cool, but if he thinks he's doing something useful, he's sorely wrong.
Way to prove his point.
There is a war going on for your mind.
scripts break too easily.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Rude linuxheads?! I find that hard to believe.
Btw, modding me down, as you most certainly will, only proves my sarcasm was justified.
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.