ZILtoid1991 comments on Web 2.0, and its consequences...

[–] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social [S] 56 points 3 years ago (6 children)

Linux doesn't have a standard file extension for executable files, and that wouldn't have been good for this meme.

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[–] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 27 points 3 years ago

You can: ./texteditor, ./bin/texteditor, "texteditor binary", "(local) texteditor program".

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[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 3 years ago (4 children)

.elf is the closest thing we have.

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[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 30 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I hate elves. If I see any elves in my computer I'm throwing it in the forge.

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[–] hoch@lemmy.world 14 points 3 years ago

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[–] Anangrierterrarian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 years ago

YES BROTHER KILL THE ELVES

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[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 years ago

Eh, .elf is more for really low level ELF files, so a program would just be named program, a kernel would be named kernel.elf

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