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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: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 28 2021, @01:33PM (1 child)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday January 28 2021, @01:33PM (#1106055) Homepage Journal

    Components are not the core though. They can be loaded and unloaded on demand.

    I'm also saying this as a Rust fan. It's a very good language for people who can't (or can't be arsed to) write good C/C++ code. But you should not be hiring people who don't write good C/C++ code to build something that's notoriously been a terrible memory hog.

    MrPlow is an IRC bot written in Rust. I quite enjoy coding it and it's extremely well suited to that type of task. He takes up a damn sight more ram on the server than his C version did though, even considering the memory leaks the C version of him had. But he's still a whole lot smaller than the Perl version of him was, so I consider it a well placed sweet spot for this application.

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  • (Score: 2) by kazzie on Friday January 29 2021, @05:57AM

    by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 29 2021, @05:57AM (#1106489)

    MrPlow is an IRC bot written in Rust. I quite enjoy coding it

    Really? I'd have guessed "MrPlow" would have been written by a Mighty Blizzard.