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What's the Deal with Chromium on Linux? Google at Odds with Package Maintainers

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday January 27 2021, @03:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the browser-non-grata dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Linux users are more likely than most to be familiar with Chromium, Google's the free and open source web project that serves as the basis for their wildly popular Chrome. Since the project's inception over a decade ago, users have been able to compile the BSD licensed code into a browser that's almost the same as the closed-source Chrome. As such, most distributions offer their own package for the browser and some even include it in the base install. Unfortunately, that may be changing soon.

[...] To the average Chromium user, this doesn't sound like much of a problem. In fact, you might even assume it doesn't apply to you. The language used in the post makes it sound like Google is referring to browsers which are spun off of the Chromium codebase, and at least in part, they are. But the search giant is also using this opportunity to codify their belief that the only official Chromium builds are the ones that they provide themselves. With that simple change, anyone using a distribution-specific build of Chromium just became persona non grata.

Source: https://hackaday.com/2021/01/26/whats-the-deal-with-chromium-on-linux-google-at-odds-with-package-maintainers/

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 28 2021, @03:31AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 28 2021, @03:31AM (#1105854)

    Orthogonal means at right angle (90 deg) to something, or unrelated to something because it is not on the same axis.
    Surely what you meant was security and convenience are in opposition, i.e., different ends on the same axis.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 28 2021, @08:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 28 2021, @08:44AM (#1105968)

    Which is not completely true.

  • (Score: 2) by bart9h on Thursday January 28 2021, @01:34PM

    by bart9h (767) on Thursday January 28 2021, @01:34PM (#1106056)

    yeah, yeah, something like that

  • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Thursday January 28 2021, @01:49PM

    by Pino P (4721) on Thursday January 28 2021, @01:49PM (#1106064) Journal

    I see convenience and security as 135 degrees* opposed. Anything that increases one is likely to decrease the other unless it is particularly well aimed.

    * Guesstimate