<div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Originally, Google employed "portage" because It allowed for very fine control of which services are installed and running.</span></blockquote>
<div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Now they run a custom closed-source OS, I think.</span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">*free except the flash plugin patrons will demand :-(</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Once at a meeting I mentioned that I thought I had in the past run a free version of Flash, and you said that the only free Flash you knew of was Gnash (which I misheard as Ganesh, which itself would be a cool name for a package).<br>
Now that I actually have used Gnash (on my mother's computer, which works great - thanks to everyone at the last meeting, especially Sam for helping figure out the display driver problems, someone whose name I did not catch who downloaded the wireless firmware, and Jason for giving me the Debian 7 install disc a while back), I can see that it was probably not what I was using before. Gnash is OK, especially for offline locally-stored animated flash games and the like, but has some problems with streaming video like the patrons would presumably use. I installed Chromium just because some minor things in the interface are nice to have, and Firefox/Iceweasel does not have them; Chromium comes with a plugin called 'Pepper' Flash - presumably to go with the NaCL ('native client') plugin. It works fine, but I tend to install the 'Flash Control' plugin to disable Flash by default because I do not like it unless I need to use it.<br>
<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The advantage might be in their source code approach to the software.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hypothetically speaking, how slow would a just-in-time compiled system be?<br><br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-Arlo James Barnes</span></div>
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