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pmontra on March 8, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Chromium drops support for Linux 3.16 and e...

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.

ali1234 on March 8, 2015 [–]

Ubuntu already backported TSYNC months ago.

pmontra on March 8, 2015 | [–]

Great. I didn't know (actually I didn't know about TSYNC until today). Thank you.

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