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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 09:55:39AM -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote:> <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>Maybe its possible that one works someplace that has all its email/collaboration/calendars in a Google Apps environment, and has a central IT org saying to use Chrome for services? Also, having Chrome on EL7 was nice because then I didn't have to also track Flash Plugin updates. Last I checked, Google also didn't support the Extended Support Release of firefox but only the last two releases, which also causes problems. My concern isn't really for my personal use of the browser. Its that I support classroom and instructional workstations, and not having a supported browser is just another excuse for management to get rid of Linux workstations and make everyone use Windows. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
On Fri, December 18, 2015 10:27 am, Jonathan Billings wrote:> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 09:55:39AM -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> <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> > > Maybe its possible that one works someplace that has all its > email/collaboration/calendars in a Google Apps environment, and has a > central IT org saying to use Chrome for services? Also, having Chrome > on EL7 was nice because then I didn't have to also track Flash Plugin > updates. > > Last I checked, Google also didn't support the Extended Support > Release of firefox but only the last two releases, which also causes > problems. > > My concern isn't really for my personal use of the browser. Its that > I support classroom and instructional workstations, and not having a > supported browser is just another excuse for management to get rid of > Linux workstations and make everyone use Windows. >Yes, I know. This is why I overcame my laziness and did use "sarcasm" tags ;-) <rant> Indeed, the first thing that happens, UNIX IT heads of institution are being replaced with Windows brew ones. Then, most of the central services are outsourced to external companies. Then all central IT everything is converted to be using google everything. Then finally, on your UNIX servers you are forced to figure out what to do with darn winmail.dat crap... you, who considered even html composed e-mail an offense. But what I'm complaining about? Even logs on our UNIX machines (sorry, Linux, not UNIX, that slip was purposeful of course) are not plain ASCII but XML garbage wrapped... </rant> 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On Fri, 2015-12-18 at 09:55 -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote:> <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>(3) If its Google, apart from the search engine, I will not use it because its the biggest intelligence gathering operation on the entire planet. :-) -- Regards, Paul. England, EU. England's place is in the European Union.