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RHEL 6 No Longer Supported By Google Chrome

Posted by samzenpus on from the too-old dept.

sfcrazy writes "Google has declared Red Hat's RHEL 6 obsolete, showing a notification which says, 'Google Chrome us no longer updating because your operating system is obsolete.' Red Hat evangelist Jan Wilderboer says: 'We release new stable versions of RHEL every 2-3 years. The API/ABI stability is what sets it apart from community distros. Customers need long term stability. Google knows (and uses) that itself internally. By cutting the support of enterprise distributions they simply tell me to move elsewhere. That's not a very encouraging thing.'"

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  1. Re:Go where? by h4rr4r · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why would you be running RHEL on something that you use to browse the web?

    Either it is a server and does not have X installed or it is a desktop and RHEL would be a PITA since it has so little software in the repos.

  2. Re:RHEL 7 isn't even out yet! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't browse the web on my critical servers. I do browse it on my RHEL 6 Workstation (full disclosure: I don't use Chrome), Why do I have a RHEL 6 Workstation? So that my management workstation uses the same OS as my servers and I don't have to think about the differences in OS versions, especially if I need to test something...