On Thu, December 17, 2015 4:18 pm, Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 04:28:01PM -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 08:37:32PM +0000, Richard wrote: >> > >> > I'm seeing the following banner when I start up google-chrome >> > 48-beta (48.0.2564.48 beta (64-bit)) on my 7.2 machines: >> > >> > This computer will soon stop receiving Google Chrome updates >> > because this Linux system will no longer be supported. >> > >> > Does this portend a support issue for chrome on centos-7 in a few >> > months when the underlying changes make their way into their -stable >> > (since, as I understand it/as last I remember, in the centos world >> > we don't have benefit of the RH chromium release)? >> >> I can confirm that I see this on RHEL7 as well, with all the latest >> updates. >> >> It looks like Google doesn't think RHEL7/CentOS7 is "new" enough to >> run Chrome. >> >> I suggest providing feedback to Google, perhaps they might consider >> dropping RHEL7/CentOS7 support if they get enough feedback, although I >> suspect they really couldn't care less about RPM-based distros, most >> of their code seems to be all ubuntu-based. > > seeing as how they don't seem to give a hoot about Ubuntu either > (based on the gymnastics users need to go thru to get Google > Earth to work on Ubuntu) I'm not sure they care much about > non-chrome Linux distros anyway. > How not surprising. $$$ is their only concern and has always been. Disrespecting open source [everything] whereas benefiting from open source themselves could be one of their mottos. This really helps to appreciate companies like RedHat even more... Valeri > > -- > ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us > ----------------------------- > God made him who had no sin > to be sin for us, so that in him > we might become the righteousness of God." > --------------------------- Corinthians 5:21 > --------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++