Google Chromium drops support for Linux 3.16 and earlier

Re:Google Chromium drops support for Linux 3.16 and earlier by fpgeek on Sunday March 08, 2015 @01:35AM (#9164818)

First, I'll note that plenty of people use Chrome without extensions. This issue wasn't a showstopper for any of them.

Second, you cut out the rest of the comment:

"If that causes great hardship for anyone and you want to do the work to figure out what's going on submit patches to fix it, I can provide pointers for where to start looking and code reviews for the patch."

Since that comment has anyone done anything other than updating their kernel and/or complaining? If not, why would the Chromium team think this issue was important?

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Re:Google Chromium drops support for Linux 3.16 and earlier by teraflop on Sunday March 08, 2015 @03:06AM (#9164877)

I don't think the other half of that comment affects my point: that the Chrome team is declining to fix bugs that only manifest on older kernels, and hence it's reasonable to call those kernels "unsupported".

I agree that it's the Chrome team's prerogative to decide that supporting those kernels is unimportant.

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Re:Google Chromium drops support for Linux 3.16 and earlier by vacri on Sunday March 08, 2015 @04:26AM (#9165011)

So you only care about problems if the user is a skilled developer, and then only if they're actively solving the bug (because skilled programmers are never involved in other projects eating their time...)?

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Re:Google Chromium drops support for Linux 3.16 and earlier by lrem on Sunday March 08, 2015 @05:59AM (#9165166)

I'm pretty sure that's the exact audience they had in mind when opensourcing (note that closed-source Chrome is still available for Linux).

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Re:Google Chromium drops support for Linux 3.16 and earlier by yuhong on Sunday March 08, 2015 @01:47AM (#9164842)

I wonder if any distro's Chromium package had a patch.

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