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Google Chrome Requires TSYNC Support Under Linux

Posted by timothy on from the what-you-gotta-do dept.

An anonymous reader writes Google's Chrome/Chromium web browser does not support slightly older versions of the Linux kernel anymore. Linux 3.17 is now the minimum requirement. According to a thread on the Debian mailing list, a kernel feature called TSYNC is what makes the difference. When a backported patch for the Debian 8 kernel was requested, there were hostile replies about not wanting to support "Google spyware."

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  1. What's TSYNC ? by itzly · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Would have been nice if TFS had included an explanation of what the TSYNC feature is.

  2. Debian 8 was already a lost cause. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Debian 8 was a lost cause long before this nonsense. It will be the first "stable" version of Debian to include systemd. Systemd was forced upon Debian users thanks to some dirty politics, and has generally been unwanted by most of the Debian community. It already caused numerous problems for those running the unstable and testing versions of Debian, including systems that would no longer boot. The fact that systemd is still under very heavily development additionally means that it has no place in a stable Linux distro release, especially a Debian stable release. Many Debian users, especially those running servers, have realized that they need to discard Debian in order to maintain the stability of their systems. We've seen lots of these people move to the BSDs, in fact. All of that aside, Debian 8 is shaping up to be one of the most disappointing Debian releases ever, if not the worst, and it's all thanks to the bad decision to include systemd.

    1. Re:Debian 8 was already a lost cause. by Jay+Maynard · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Of course, you ignore the multitude of technical arguments against it, centering on its monolithic nature and its propensity to devour everything in its path.

      I don't have a lot of strong feelings about systemd, but it does strike me as fundamentally failing to understand Unix.

      --
      Disinfect the GNU General Public Virus!
  3. Re:So much for Debian 8, then... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This needs some serious modding up. ... as a lead developer who was instrumental in moving us from debian (which until the last year or two, I had been evangelizing and supporting for almost a decade) to FreeBSD for over 10,000 servers (two entire clusters) and hundreds of workstations (test/dev machines of developers/scientists/etc).

    We're starting to see similar things from our peers as well, debian/centos/rhel/ubuntu being dropped pretty rapidly within our circle of influence - they don't listen to users/customers (really bad RHEL wise, when you're paying them hundreds of thousands of dollars), they fail on security (something debian was once great at), and they're moving linux into a direction that's frankly - undesirable for serious servers, HPC, etc.

    Debian is dead, stop giving it attention, we've all moved on - so should the conversations.