On 04/03/2013 02:15 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Tue, 2 Apr 2013, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 10:09:45AM +0100, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
2) For those who haven't heard this, some links:
http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95411
RHEL/SL/SLC are not listed at all. No announcement anywhere on google
about adding or dropping support for any specific version of RHEL/SL.
http://www.muktware.com/5203/google-says-red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-obsolete
Information at above link is factually incorrect.
Updates of google-chrome for SL6 have not stopped.
Latest update is google-chrome-stable-26.0.1410.43-189671.x86_64
with build date Thu Mar 21 12:41:44 2013.
Ever since I installed that version, google-chrome warns me that
it has stopped supporting this version of my operating system
- I'm running Scientific Linux release 6.3 (Carbon).
"yum --enablerepo=google-chrome list" does list
google-chrome-beta.x86_64 26.0.1410.43-189671 google-chrome
google-chrome-unstable.x86_64 27.0.1453.12-191631 google-chrome
so there may be more releases to come, but it is worth noting that
google-chrome-beta and google-chrome-stable are curently the same version.
The unstables are still being updated nightly (but is that a script on
auto-pilot?)
Updates may be continuing but Google *is* telling me,
in a very obvious way, that they have stopped....
Two comments on the above issues (using EL current production on a
full-service workstation, not a server):
1. Some sites -- including the web site home page from my university --
automatically include Flash. This same group pushes the Microsoft
environment whenever possible -- and must be pushed into a corner to
comply with W3C and IETF open interoperable standards. If (or when)
Flash features no longer supported under the last release for EL are
required, such sites may not be fully functional.
Is there any Flash workalike replacement? Can one be developed or is
Flash compliance proprietary closed standard?
2. Google Chrome is another issue -- there are situations under which
Chrome functions better (in practice) than Firefox or Opera. Is full
Chrome source still available? If so, is there any group willing to do
and maintain a port of current Chrome? (My own group does not have
sufficient staffing for this activity.)
Yasha Karant
