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JooJoo runs a custom OS created by Fusion Garage, which means it’s unlikely to have the cool apps from independent developers that made the iPhone a hit or juic
by mahmud 17y ago
JooJoo runs a custom OS created by Fusion Garage, which means it’s unlikely to have the cool apps from independent developers that made the iPhone a hit or juiced the PC ecosystem.
How custom is it if it runs Flash? Gnash is not powerful enough to recompile across platforms and play video off of Hulu. And I don't think they have the binary-translation technology to convert the flash-player binary, or even flash swf/flv files, to their own binary format (if they did, they wouldn't be in the gadget manufacturing business; they would be entitled to double digits in Adobe's shares/market-share.)
So, Wired, what Linux or Windows Mobile based OS is JooJoo really running? You couldn't get your hands on the device just long enough to find out? Tried about:config or similar tricks? How about finger-printing the hell out of it with nmap until you arrive at a ballpark?
- pmjordan 17y agoThey are probably just running a browser directly on the framebuffer (no X) on a Linux kernel. It seems a lot can pass for a "custom OS" these days. "Custom app launcher" seems more appropriate.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoThey've publicly stated it's "unix-based" or some such nonsense, so it's linux.
- veemjeem 17y agofreebsd can also run flash pretty well too, so it might be bsd based too... I haven't tried hulu on my system yet, but most flash sites work pretty well so I'd be surprised if hulu doesn't work.
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- atamyrat 17y agoI met one of their engineers earlier this year. He said it runs Linux, WebKit and GTK+ for UI. Of course if they hadn't changed it since then.