Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Nov 2009 23:05 UTC
As we all know, Mac OS X has support for what is called 'fat binaries'. These are binaries that can carry code for for instance multiple architectures - in the case of the Mac, PowerPC and x86. Ryan Gordon was working on an implementation of fat binaries for Linux - but due to the conduct of the Linux maintainers, Gordon has halted the effort.
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a solution looking for a problem. Having a distribution for each architecture is good enough for almost all cases. And certainly for enough that the demand for this feature just isn't there.
I can see one use for fat binaries that multiple distributions don't solve: Hosting /usr on NFS in a heterogenous hardware environment.