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Google to extend Chromebook updates on Chromebooks from 8 years to 10 years (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Even as it gets better, there should probably be more years of updates.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's great for the users. But I do not envy the developers who have to support 10 year old software.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's more a case of supporting 10 year old hardware, maintaining the drivers to work with new software. As far as I've been able to find, there is no mention to lock them into the $current ChromeOS.

Still not fun, but damnit my Linux kernel can still load ISA drivers, and it's been 25 years since I've used one of those.