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Tuesday, October 14 • 3:30pm - 4:20pm
Chromium and Linux Distributions - Paweł Hajdan, Jr., Google

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Chromium is an open-source web browser project, packaged by distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Arch and Gentoo among others, but notably not Fedora. In 2009 an article called "Chromium: Why it isn't in Fedora yet as a proper package" by Tom Callaway explained some reasons for that. In this presentation, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. will review the original article and state of Chromium as of 2014, explaining what the project is doing to accommodate needs, guidelines, and policies of Linux distributions (such as using system libraries), and what are the main challenges it faces.
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Paweł Hajdan, Jr.

Software Engineer, Google
Paweł is a Chromium project developer since 2008. He got a job working on Google Chrome after becoming the first committer from outside the company. Leading a small team of Gentoo Linux developers packaging Chromium, he also helps other Linux distribution developers. Pawe... Read More →

Tuesday October 14, 2014 3:30pm - 4:20pm CEST
Room 2
  LinuxCon, Experience Level - Intermediate

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