Officially supported Linux platforms of Chromium

[Takashiro]

Hi,

According to the system requirements of Chrome (https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95346),

To use Chrome on Linux, you'll need:

• 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04+, Debian 8+, openSUSE 13.3+, or Fedora Linux 24+
• An Intel Pentium 4 processor or later that's SSE2 capable 

As for Chromium, I found the officially supported platforms here https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkcr/docs/linux_chromium_packages.md

including Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE, Arch, Gentoo, ALT Linux, Mageia, and NixOS.

But what versions of these Linux distributions are supported? Are the system requirements the same as that of Chrome?

Can we assume that RedHat is also officially supported as it is based on Fedora? And CentOS as well?

Thanks for your help.

[PhistucK]

"officially supported platforms" - Chromium is not a Google product (Google does not officially release or support binaries of Chromium) and so nothing is officially supported by Google. They are officially supported by those distributions.

I believe Chrome is officially tested only on the specifically mentioned Linux distributions, so anything else (any derivative) is probably not officially supported (but would probably work if the distribution did not change any API, path and so on...).

However, I am not a Googler, so this is just my personal understanding of the matter.

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☆PhistucK

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[Tim Brown]

What PhistucK said is correct.

For Chrome, the releases are only tested on Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE and Fedora. Hence they are the supported distributions for Chrome.

For Chromium, neither Google not the Chromium Project release official binaries (as PhistucK says, the packages are built by the separate distributions, some adding patches on top of core Chromium). So in that respect there are no supported platforms of Chromium, but it depends on your definition of "supported".

In general we would like users to be able to use Chrome/Chromium no matter the distribution. So if we receive bug reports that something is broken on a particular distribution we will make some effort to fix it. However, the work might be a lower priority if the work is particularly onerous or the distribution obscure etc.

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