[CentOS] And then there was one (browser)

Sat Feb 8 11:28:42 UTC 2014
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

Am 06.02.2014 um 17:41 schrieb "Phelps, Matt" <mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu>:
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Fabian Arrotin
> <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net>wrote:
> 
>> On 06/02/14 16:26, Phelps, Matt wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>> http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.ca/2014/02/stable-channel-update.html
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Yes, please. Can the CentOS folks check with their newly minted Red Hat
>>> brethren on this issue?
>>> 
>>> This is getting critical for us. We have over a hundred CO6 desktops that
>>> are currently running an insecure version of chromium. The security
>> people
>>> are all over us on this!
>>> 
>>> We need to run chrome/chromium in order to manage our Google Apps for
>>> Government deployment (for over 1000 users). It doesn't work right with
>>> firefox.
>>> 
>>> If we need to apply pressure elsewhere, please let us know where to
>> direct
>>> our fury.
>>> 
>> 
>> ... to Google ? (especially because it's *their* browser to support
>> *their* Google Apps ....)
>> 
>> 
> Of course we already have notified Google.
> 
> I was hoping for a little more granularity. Google is a large place; as is
> Red Hat I know. There was word that Red Hat was working with Google on a
> solution, and I was hoping to hear if there was any movement.
> 
> I can't ask Red Hat since we don't pay for it, but perhaps the new CentOS
> relationship with them can offer a channel of communication for the Community.


i do not understand, having such infrastructure and not even a subscription. 
CentOS lives also because professionals pay upstream for their work. 

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LF