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Linux Mint Now Packaging Their Own Chromium, Developing New IPTV Player

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Michael Larabel
Nov 3, 2020

Linux Mint is finally packaging Chromium. Linux Mint previously offered Chromium when Ubuntu offered it as a Debian package prior to migrating to Chromium Snaps. Meanwhile the upstream Debian packaging for Chromium often falls well out of date. Thus Linux Mint is now packaging Google’s open-source Chromium web browser on its own for users interested it in place of the official Google Chrome package or using the likes of Firefox.

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Michael Larabel

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