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"Unlike major mobile operating systems, which were designed based on Linux codes, Mozilla created their Firefox Os (project name: Boot to Gecko) on an HTML plat
by random_passerby 12y ago
"Unlike major mobile operating systems, which were designed based on Linux codes, Mozilla created their Firefox Os (project name: Boot to Gecko) on an HTML platform, more precisely HTML 5."
afaik Firefox OS is also built upon a Linux kernel, so it's a bit misleading ...
- creshal 12y agoIt is. And in my (limited) experience, version fragmentation is already a bad problem… There's little to no apps, and half of those few need a newer OS version than is available for my half-year old Fire E.
- on_and_off 12y agoYikes. How do they plan to get users ? For all the talk about Android's fragmentation, it has been conceived so that the sdk is as back-compatible as possible (and Play Services and the compatibility libraries only improve that).
- creshal 12y ago> How do they plan to get users ? Cheap phones for users who don't particularly care, I assume. > and Play Services and the compatibility libraries only improve that I haven't yet looked at the developer side of FFOS, but guessing from the store entries of all the apps I cannot install, it doesn't have an equivalent to those.
- icebraining 12y agoYeap. B2G is composed of Gonk (basic Linux distro) + Gecko (rendering engine) + Gaia (HTML/CSS/JS-based UI layer).
- Millennium 12y agoFor that matter, iOS isn't based on Linux: they share some common ancestry, but it's much closer to a BSD derivative.