Kernel 3.14 is the most recent long-term support kernel from upstream (=kernel.org). I think it's a bad idea if Google doesn't support that. Many people depend on it.
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Originally posted by asdfblah View PostAh, I didn't know. Still, looks like he keeps contributing to canonical: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ke...er/049110.html
Well, my point still applies: neither Canonical nor Google seem to care about the Linux community... they only seem to care about their corporate interests. I'm still wondering about the back story regarding other distros, though.
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Originally posted by chrisb View PostIt would make sense that the (arguably) largest Linux downstream of your software, and the distro that your employer builds Goobuntu from, has the patch. Cook is also a Debian Developer though.
Are there any other distros which don't have the patch besides Debian? OpenSuse, Fedora 20 and 21, and Ubuntu all seem to have it.
The Debian kernel team are just hostile to supporting Google/Chromium - they call it "spyware" and point to Debian dropping support for Chromium on Debian 7 despite the fact that Debian 7 was released less than 2 years ago.
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Originally posted by ucepit View PostI don't blame the Debian for feeling this way. They are not alone in objecting to vendor lockin.
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I use Firefox on an older kernel and everything works fine.. oh wait.
Note that the developer who decided Chrome and Chromium will only work on newer kernels works for Google full time, so there is no "independent open source project" crap that'll fly. It's Google decision.
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Originally posted by balouba View PostI use Firefox on an older kernel and everything works fine.. oh wait.
Note that the developer who decided Chrome and Chromium will only work on newer kernels works for Google full time, so there is no "independent open source project" crap that'll fly. It's Google decision.
- Chromium upstream decided not to support kernels without a certain patch.
- The Debian developer decided that he wouldn't support the patch because he doesn't like Chromium.
- Chromium maintainer can now decide to try and get patch in anyway despite hostility
- Or Chromium maintainer can decide to revert patch requirement and ship modified upstream
The Chromium maintainer expects that TSYNC is not really a hard requirement, but if it is, will accept a patch to remove it. So perhaps this isn't really the big deal that people are making it out to be.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostKernel 3.14 is the most recent long-term support kernel from upstream (=kernel.org). I think it's a bad idea if Google doesn't support that. Many people depend on it.
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Originally posted by rgvivA View PostI won't be surprised if one morning people wake up to find that chrome/chromium replaced their linux kernel entirely, and that it is now in charge of booting their machine! and for laughs it will load linux kernel as a JS plugin. Ok they might consider NaCl.
I once looked at chromium code, it is an order of magnitude more complex then the kernel itself. Damit!
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Originally posted by rgvivA View PostI won't be surprised if one morning people wake up to find that chrome/chromium replaced their linux kernel entirely, and that it is now in charge of booting their machine! and for laughs it will load linux kernel as a JS plugin. Ok they might consider NaCl.
I once looked at chromium code, it is an order of magnitude more complex then the kernel itself. Damit!
Originally posted by chrisb View Post
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Originally posted by torsionbar28 View PostTaking bets, which do you think will happen first? Chrome will be built in to systemd? Or systemd will be built into chrome? Lol
Has Red Hat issued a statement on this yet? All of our workstations and servers here are RHEL6 (2.6.32) and we won't be upgrading until at least 2018. We use Chrome today, because it seems to handle certain web sites better than FF, especially sites that are Flash heavy.
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