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> This year we'll see solid major releases from many high profile
> projects (Mozilla, OpenOffice, KDE, GNOME, etc.) and reach the point
> where they can all be built with a gcc version 3 compiler (i.e.
> hopefully the ABI can be consitant across distributions again). Soon
> after the various distributions do a release with those components in
> place (maybe close to the time of the next Eugene Computer Conference).
> It would be great to start a strong push locally to get people to give
> software libre a try.
>
What does ABI mean/stand for?