RHEL 6 No Longer Supported By Google Chrome

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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Re:RHEL 7 isn't even out yet!

[Zero__Kelvin]

Most Linux software is installed using the repository for the particular distribution and has the source code available. If you install from the repo then you don't care because the dependencies are managed for you. If you build from the source you decide to use shared or static libraries at build time.

"It's frustrating that you often can't use older software on newer Linux systems due to API compatibility issues."

Yes. I hate that I can't use a decade old version of something when there is a recent, more stable version with more features available in the repositiory.

"Meanwhile, you can run Windows software going all the way back to the 90s."

Yes. Viruses from the 1990s still run great on Windows. That's awesome!

Other than that, excellent troll though!