"Google's being aggressive about taking advantage of a kernel-level security feature that they developed to solve a real problem. This seems like a good thing overall."
Yes, it is a good thing for the people who 1) use desktop linux and 2) use a rolling distribution or a distribution that was released within the last year. I suspect that might be a rather small percentage of the Desktop users in the world.
It simply means that people who 1) use a desktop Linux and 2) use a stable distribution can't run Chrome (which I imagine solves the security problem in another way). This fraction of a fraction may be larger (corporate desktops, e.g. RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux, Debian stable, Ubuntu LTS &c)
Yes, it is a good thing for the people who 1) use desktop linux and 2) use a rolling distribution or a distribution that was released within the last year. I suspect that might be a rather small percentage of the Desktop users in the world.
It simply means that people who 1) use a desktop Linux and 2) use a stable distribution can't run Chrome (which I imagine solves the security problem in another way). This fraction of a fraction may be larger (corporate desktops, e.g. RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux, Debian stable, Ubuntu LTS &c)