Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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.'"

2 of 231 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why would you need a web browser on a server? by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Fedora is not better suited for all workstation tasks. I simply do not have time to deal with things breaking every few weeks, nor do I have time to upgrade my entire OS every year and go through the process of dealing with things breaking as a result. I switched from Fedora to ScientificLinux (a RHEL clone, more or less) for that reason: I have better things to do than to deal with a distro that thinks I should reformat my hard drive every 6 or 12 months. I am not alone in this either; I know a lot of other people who need a reliable workstation more than the latest features of every package.

    --
    Palm trees and 8
  2. Re:RHEL 7 isn't even out yet! by sunderland56 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What the heck are they thinking?

    Maybe they meant to drop support for Red Hat Linux 6, not Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6?

      - Red Hat Linux 6.0 (Hedwig), April 26, 1999 (Linux 2.2.5-15)
      - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago), November 10, 2010 (Linux 2.6.32-71)

    Yes, their naming scheme could use some work.....