Re:Google Chromium drops support for Linux 3.16 and earlier
by username223 on Saturday March 07, 2015 @11:23PM
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> When you commit to a 10-year support cycle, you'd better be prepared to backport quite a few things.
OTOH, when you make a break-the-world release every six weeks, you can expect lots of breakage when dealing with the rest of the world. From what I can tell, Google pushed a feature they wanted into Linux, then didn't bother to think about backward compatibility. This would be fine if Chrome weren't force-updating software -- people on older kernels could just wait and update when they updated their kernels -- but alas that is not the case.
OTOH, when you make a break-the-world release every six weeks, you can expect lots of breakage when dealing with the rest of the world. From what I can tell, Google pushed a feature they wanted into Linux, then didn't bother to think about backward compatibility. This would be fine if Chrome weren't force-updating software -- people on older kernels could just wait and update when they updated their kernels -- but alas that is not the case.