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Re:Google Chromium drops support for Linux 3.16 and earlier by pmontra on Sunday March 08, 2015 @04:43AM (#9165033)
Most people update the kernel when their distro does. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is currently at a .5 version with kernel 3.13. There seem to be no plans for a 12.04.6 with a newer kernel but we'll see.

Maybe TSYNC can be backported to 3.13 (I'm unsure about who has to do it) or Chromium can be compiled without TSYNC (distro's choice). If nothing happens this is going to cost Google some users but obviously it's their browser and their choice of how to implement it and where it can run.

Re:Google Chromium drops support for Linux 3.16 and earlier by ali1234 on Sunday March 08, 2015 @09:58AM (#9165586)
Ubuntu already backported TSYNC months ago.
Re:Google Chromium drops support for Linux 3.16 and earlier by pmontra on Sunday March 08, 2015 @01:46PM (#9166357)
Great. I didn't know (actually I didn't know about TSYNC until today). Thank you.