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   The MILF Messiah (lunarised@whinge.town)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 19:00:11 JST The MILF Messiah
   Why has no one built good linux binary compatibility?
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 22:32:53 JST 翠星石

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     @lunarised The kernel, Linux's SYSCALL ABI hasn't changed much for decades, thus 20 year old binaries that only use Linux SYSCALLs work fine - for example the then largest prime number found that also implements DeCSS in i386 instructions still runs fine today if you have Linux compiled to support 32 bit SYSCALLs.
     
     Linux's limited SYSCALLs don't offer a lot of needed functionality and are not portable, thus most binaries for GNU/Linux are compiled against GNU libc.
     
     glbic's binary compatibility is good, as it has forward ABI compatibility and the API is forwards and backwards compatible.
     
     Of course, such forward compatibility doesn't help if you write the software wrong - for example proprietary malware that implements digital handcuffs that checks for elf sections and refuses to run if an elf section change (that was announced 5 years ago) is made is software programmed wrong.
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     The MILF Messiah (lunarised@whinge.town)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 15:21:00 JST The MILF Messiah

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     @Suiseiseki for extensibility, it falls so much shorter than COM for windows
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     The MILF Messiah (lunarised@whinge.town)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 15:30:19 JST The MILF Messiah

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     @sysrq @Suiseiseki I never know if this guy is a bait account or just a zealot tbh
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     tsoifan1997 (sysrq@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 15:30:20 JST tsoifan1997

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     @Suiseiseki @lunarised
     >glbic's binary compatibility is good, as it has forward ABI compatibility and the API is forwards and backwards compatible.
     I know this is bait but I nearly burst a blood vessel.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 15:35:38 JST 翠星石

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     @lunarised >He cannot comprehend that the GNU/Extremist instance would have GNU/Zealot's on it.
     
     @sysrq I've never had any problems running or compiling free software binaries due to glibc.
     
     Have you tried not running proprietary malware?
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 15:38:40 JST 翠星石

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     @lunarised COM is an OS thing that a kernel cannot implement.
     
     COM is depreciated now anyway.
     
     Just use dbus if you want cursed IPC.
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     The MILF Messiah (lunarised@whinge.town)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 15:44:05 JST The MILF Messiah

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     @Suiseiseki I can assure you, deprecated or not, it is still used extensively with windows applications