> Date: Thursday, December 17, 2015 16:28:01 -0500 > From: Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> > > 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 > [not] 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.On the linked-to help page: <https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95346> they show fedora-21[+] as supported. If I remember correctly, RHEL/CentOS-7 is based against fedora-19.
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 09:38:40PM +0000, Richard wrote:> On the linked-to help page: > > <https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95346> > > they show fedora-21[+] as supported. If I remember correctly, > RHEL/CentOS-7 is based against fedora-19.Actually, in two places on that page they say: "Ubuntu 12.04+, Debian 7+, OpenSuSE 13.1+, or Fedora Linux 21" No plus (+) after the 21. I assume it must be a typo, since f21 left support on the 1st of this month. The fact that their documentation is poorly maintained is just another bit of evidence that no one seems to care. Either that, or Google doesn't support Chrome on any supported version of RHEL or Fedora. I guess I have to switch to OpenSuSE. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
> Date: Friday, December 18, 2015 08:34:36 -0500 > From: Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 09:38:40PM +0000, Richard wrote: >> On the linked-to help page: >> >> <https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95346> >> >> they show fedora-21[+] as supported. If I remember correctly, >> RHEL/CentOS-7 is based against fedora-19. > > Actually, in two places on that page they say: > > "Ubuntu 12.04+, Debian 7+, OpenSuSE 13.1+, or Fedora Linux 21" > > No plus (+) after the 21. > > I assume it must be a typo, since f21 left support on the 1st of > this month. The fact that their documentation is poorly > maintained is just another bit of evidence that no one seems to > care. Either that, or Google doesn't support Chrome on any > supported version of RHEL or Fedora. I guess I have to switch to > OpenSuSE.Right. I put the "+" in square brackets because, knowing that fedora-21 is EOL, I assumed that they meant to include more recent releases too (as they indicated with the "+" on the other linux spins). I am curious as to what's in FC21+, but not in ~FC19, that might be about to cause things to break. I looked through the various discussions linked from: <http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/12/beta-channel-update.html> but didn't see anything obvious, but it may be too early for the changes to be mentioned.
On 12/18/2015 08:34 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote:> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 09:38:40PM +0000, Richard wrote: > "Ubuntu 12.04+, Debian 7+, OpenSuSE 13.1+, or Fedora Linux 21" No plus > (+) after the 21. I assume it must be a typo, since f21 left support > on the 1st of this month. The fact that their documentation is poorly > maintained is just another bit of evidence that no one seems to care. > Either that, or Google doesn't support Chrome on any supported version > of RHEL or Fedora. I guess I have to switch to OpenSuSE.it could also be an indictment of Fedora itself, in effect saying 'well, it worked on 21, but we have no idea WTF batcrap craziness will be coming out of them next... so. good luck with that.' -- public gpg key id: 1362BA1A
On Fri, December 18, 2015 7:34 am, Jonathan Billings wrote:> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 09:38:40PM +0000, Richard wrote: >> On the linked-to help page: >> >> <https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95346> >> >> they show fedora-21[+] as supported. If I remember correctly, >> RHEL/CentOS-7 is based against fedora-19. > > Actually, in two places on that page they say: > > "Ubuntu 12.04+, Debian 7+, OpenSuSE 13.1+, or Fedora Linux 21" > > No plus (+) after the 21. > > I assume it must be a typo, since f21 left support on the 1st of this > month. The fact that their documentation is poorly maintained is just > another bit of evidence that no one seems to care. Either that, or > Google doesn't support Chrome on any supported version of RHEL or > Fedora. I guess I have to switch to OpenSuSE. ><sarcasm> I guess we all are divided into two categories 1. If google [something] doesn't work on the operating system of my choice, the hell with that crap (and google itself). 2. If google [something] doesn't work on the operating system of my choice, I'll use whatever mighty google orders me (even if it is MS Windows ? ). </sarcasm> Valeri> -- > Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++