On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Johnny Hughes <joh...@centos.org> wrote: > On 11/22/2013 01:25 PM, Chris Beattie wrote: >> On 11/22/2013 11:29 AM, Phelps, Matt wrote: >>> Most of us using CentOS/RHEL are in an "e"nterprise environment where >>> that sort of thing just isn't allowed. >>> >>> A supported, updated, secured version of chrome/chromium is essential >>> for our CentOS environment, and I venture to guess many others' >>> (including RHEL users). >> What happens if there comes a time when Johnny's heavy wizardry isn't enough >> to keep Chrome running on CentOS? Or if he just doesn't have time to do it? >> The browser that you need won't run on the OS which you can't change. You >> have a Kobayashi Maru scenario. You can't win unless you can change the >> rules. >> >> I do something similar, but in my case, I provide virtual machines loaded >> with older versions of Internet Explorer for QA testers. The testers can't >> do any permanent damage to the VMs that the hypervisor won't fix when it >> reverts the VM after the tester logs off. Meanwhile, the version of IE on >> the testers' main machines is kept up-to-date. >> > > BTW, I like chrome, so that is why I am trying to maintain this ... but > it is GOOGLE who is not maintaining the code to work on EL. > > Just like Google also decided to NOT provide a Google Drive for Linux > and a bunch of other things. > > I am just about to say screw Google as they don't seem to care about > enterprise linux at all .. if it isn't android or the absolute latest > and greatest glibc/gtk/glib combo then they don't want to support it. > If that is the case, who am I to make their code work for millions of > users who THEY seem unconcerned about. > > If someone from Google gives a crap about getting chrome working on the > several million machine universe that is CentOS users, you guys contact > me and let me know ... otherwise, I'll just assume you don't give a damn. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > The CentOS Project > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
Oh, I understand! Your efforts have been heroic, and well appreciated. My rant was (and has been) directed at Google. I definitely want more pressure on Google from whomever can apply it. I was hoping there would eventually be a gcc47 in EPEL or some other repository that may help the situation. -- Matt Phelps System Administrator, Computation Facility Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mphe...@cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
