Google Chrome Requires TSYNC Support Under Linux

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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Debian 8 was already a lost cause.

[Anonymous Coward]

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.