Most of us using CentOS/RHEL are in an "e"nterprise environment where that sort of thing just isn't allowed. A supported, updated, secured version of chrome/chromium is essential for our CentOS environment, and I venture to guess many others' (including RHEL users). On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Chris Beattie <cbeattie at geninfo.com> wrote: > On 11/21/2013 11:40 AM, Darr247 wrote: >> On 2013-11-21 @14:41 zulu, Wes James scribed: >>> It is with the script on this page: >>> >>> http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/ >> >> Be aware some on this list consider that script "criminal." > > At what point does it become less hassle to spin up a virtual machine with a distro recent-enough to run the latest Chrome? Virtualization is a wedge that puts more space between your rocks and your hard places. > > Just for kicks, I downloaded a Chromium OS image and had it running in VMware Player in a few minutes. It wasn't as snappy as a native install, but it was usable. I could have signed in to Google and picked up my bookmarks if I'd wanted. > > Having said that, I don't have any experience with either KVM or kidnapping libraries from other distros. I don't know which is harder and/or more fun (depends on what you're looking to get out of the experience), but it might be an option. > > -- > -Chris > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Matt Phelps System Administrator, Computation Facility Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu