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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... ...full story at slashdot

from slashdot on Thu, Nov 05 2009

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