Hi,<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 10:47 AM, <<a href="mailto:dan_500@web.de">dan_500@web.de</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This topic is may a bit OT: Why there is no open application binary<br>
interface? I could use any binary on any operating system which support<br>
this standard. In the moment I can't use my linux executables on Solaris<br>
or FreeBSD and I can't use the Solaris kernel for Ubuntu without using<br>
solaris packages from Nexenta project.<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div><br>today your topic cannot be handled by freedesktop due to it's low level kernel closed requirements.<br>A binary file format is too kernel specific so you'll find differences beetween kernels like linux,freebsd,mach,nt.<br>
There is an attempt in the bsd land to let you run a linux binary under a bsd kernel without modifications.<br>In the same way you can resolve some windows binaries under a linux software distribuition like Debian using mime + an intermediate api map traduction like wine.<br>
In the same way you can use a java bytecode across platforms.<br>Actually there is not standard in the terms you mean and I think there's no critical mass to let a community invest in that direction.FreeBSD and Solaris do something but it's to early to think in terms of "Universal Binary ;)"<br>
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