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Love to see upgrades with a negative net size lmao. Software should get more optimized with time, not more bloated. Oop, just got the gnome console popup notification saying that my install command finished running, sweet -- it took as long as making this post

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I already responded to you in another comment, but:

If I read this right, they didn’t push separate PowerPC and Intel architecture versions, you’d just get MacOS (or in those days, OSX) and it would ship with both binaries.

No, it's even crazier than that. You didn't get separate PowerPC and Intel binaries either. You got fat binaries that had machine code for both architectures!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not sure I want to understand how they got that to work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I think this is available on Linux too if I remember correctly. You can compile a binary that contains multiple architectures. It’s been awhile but I think ELF binaries can do it.