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After Negative User Response, ChromeOS To Re-Introduce Support For Ext{2,3,4}

Posted by Soulskill on from the squeeky-wheels dept.

NotInHere writes: Only three days after the public learned that the ChromeOS project was going to disable ext2fs support for external drives (causing Linux users to voice many protests on websites like Slashdot and the issue tracker), the ChromeOS team now plans to support it again. To quote Ben Goodger's comment: "Thanks for all of your feedback on this bug. We've heard you loud and clear. We plan to re-enable ext2/3/4 support in Files.app immediately. It will come back, just like it was before, and we're working to get it into the next stable channel release."

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  1. re ext support by freddieb · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Correct response. Thanks Google for listening. I definitely would consider a Chromebox however ext support is manditory!

    1. Re:re ext support by spacepimp · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Fact: MS has been fined for selling (illegally) personal and identifying information of users to political parties in the US.
      Fact: Win 8.1 is a giant step in tying a cloud service/tracking account for all that you now do in their OS, and to boot, the backdoors built in for the NSA are also usable by the black hats of the world.
      Fact: Google doesn't sell your data, they serve ads. Your data is never known to an advertiser, ever, by anything supplied to them via Google.

      You might want to ask yourself why even in the Enterprise, MS tries to foist upon you personally identifying information. so they can track app uses/web c alls made by applications, and send them all to MS for collection.

  2. Re:FOSS by gweihir · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No zombified, closed-down Linux for me. I will continue to use the real thing.

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  3. Confused by Midnight+Thunder · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So a bug is a feature and per Google, a removed feature is a bug? Okay, I think I have it.

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  4. Just think by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 4, Insightful
    If this was Microsoft instead of Google, the fanbois would be out yelling at the people who complained, telling them what idiots they were, and that no one in their right mind would ever want an external drive on their Chromebook.

    Then Google would have completely ignored the complaints claiming that their research showed absolutely everyone just loved elimination of support for external drives.

    We talked, they listened.

    Sitting here at breakfast, happily using my little Chromebook that boots into Linux when I need it.

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  5. Don't Bullshit Me, Man by TangoMargarine · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To quote Ben Goodger's comment: "Thanks for all of your feedback on this bug. We've heard you loud and clear. We plan to re-enable ext2/3/4 support in Files.app immediately. It will come back, just like it was before, and we're working to get it into the next stable channel release."

    It's not a bug unless it was an accident.

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  6. Re:FOSS by LWATCDR · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Except this is from Lockheed. While I would not stop all other research Lockheed has a history of making things that most people think is impossible possible.
    First production US jet fighter.
    First aircraft to fly over 70,000ft "level flight".
    First US mach 2 fighter.
    First Spysat.
    First Mach 3 aircraft.
    First stealth aircraft.
    I really would not dismiss this one. It is as least very interesting.

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  7. Re:FOSS by Rich0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No zombified, closed-down Linux for me. I will continue to use the real thing.

    Please be sure to stop using your DVR, automobile, and the other 47 Linux systems you intereact with every day which don't offer you a bash prompt. :)

    I do get what you're saying, but the purpose of a Chromebook is not the same as the purpose for the general-purpose Linux distro I'm typing this on.