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Mozilla to ship Boot to Gecko devices in 2012Mozilla to ship Boot to Gecko devices in 2012Posted Feb 27, 2012 21:08 UTC (Mon) by geuder (subscriber, #62854)Parent article: Mozilla to ship Boot to Gecko devices in 2012
The Boot to Gecko presentation at FOSDEM was the best "marketing" presentation at FOSDEM this year (my completely subjective rating out of my completely unrepresentative sample of the 200+ sessions held)
I don't see a video recording, though.
I'm not a big Firefox fanboy, but Boot to Gecko might be the best that happens to the free software aware mobile phone user after the demise of Maemo.
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Mozilla to ship Boot to Gecko devices in 2012 Posted Feb 28, 2012 1:15 UTC (Tue) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]
As long as the design architecture explicitly includes proprietary daemons running on the CPU (as opposed to the Baseband processor), I certainly will not be interested in this initiative. The UI and other bits might be interesting to port to FSO though.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Architecture
Mozilla to ship Boot to Gecko devices in 2012 Posted Feb 28, 2012 6:07 UTC (Tue) by alison (✭ supporter ✭, #63752) [Link]
It's fascinating that B2G is based on bionic rather than glibc. Note for example that the architecture includes gralloc, rild and libstagefright rather than the glibc equivalents. Thanks to Pabs for the links.
B2G using bionic instead of glibc Posted Feb 28, 2012 8:17 UTC (Tue) by Felix.Braun (subscriber, #3032) [Link]
As far as I understand, this choice is not made for legal reasons (ie. not because Mozilla want to reduce the use of (L)GPL licensed code) but for purely technical reasons. They want to convince hardware makers that the code that will be running on the devices is as close as possible to Android, so that no extra effort is required in hardware to support B2G.
Mozilla to ship Boot to Gecko devices in 2012 Posted Feb 28, 2012 11:21 UTC (Tue) by rqosa (subscriber, #24136) [Link] > the demise of Maemo Maemo isn't quite dead yet — see Nemo Mobile (and Cordia HD for the tablet UX).
Mozilla to ship Boot to Gecko devices in 2012 Posted Feb 28, 2012 23:27 UTC (Tue) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]
I liked the talk by Rasterman about EFL and Tizen too:
http://video.fosdem.org/2012/maintracks/k.1.105/EFL.webm
I don't think the Mozilla talks are on the site yet.
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