Re: How is Debian's Linux versioned?
It'll probably be more help if you tell him what the acronym
actually stands for - ie 'Application Binary Interface'...
A quick search produced this definition from foldoc.org:
The interface by which an application program gains access to
operating system and other services. It should be possible to
run the same compiled binary applications on any system with the right ABI.
It is to a compiled binary what an API is to source code...
DigbyT
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 08:43:19PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> > What is ABI?
>
> the abi of the kernel-image (resp. linux-image). modules which are build
> for the same abi within the same version don't need to be rebuild when
> the revision is bumped.
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