Firefox phones are pretty canceled; OS may live on in IoT?

Posted Dec 10, 2015 4:38 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: Firefox phones are pretty canceled; OS may live on in IoT? by louie
Parent article: How canceled is Firefox OS?

> resources on a fight (mobile)

I've said it before... if people really want a viable open source/free software mobile system then Android is going to be the best bet.

Using a 'google-less' android phone is already possible and the big problems that plague people wanting to have a 100% free software Android (drivers, vendor support, etc) are going to plague every single other embedded Linux effort out there. The advantage to using Android is that you don't have to write the entire OS first before you can tackle those items.

Firefox phones are pretty canceled; OS may live on in IoT?

Posted Dec 10, 2015 15:22 UTC (Thu) by louie (guest, #3285) [Link]

Agree re Android. A full-stack mobile OS is hard; best to build on a model that is actually proven to work. (FFOS built somewhat on this core; but ultimately discarded a lot of what is proven to work.)

Firefox phones are pretty canceled; OS may live on in IoT?

Posted Dec 15, 2015 15:44 UTC (Tue) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334) [Link]

I have (after giving up on FxOS https://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/firefox-os-post-mortem.html ) now Nexus 5 with CyanogenMod WITHOUT Play store (but with F-Droid). Having Firefox for Android and trying as many as possible HTML 5 apps.

However, now I am getting bitten straight by one sneaky lie of FxOS development. Apps on FxOS Marketplace are actually not true HTML5 Apps run anywhere, but substantial part of them expect to have Gaia available. So, no, I couldn't even use Notepad or help to develop Calendar or Contacts, because are not actually true webapps, but just platform-bound apps for one particular non-standard OS. Sad world.

Matěj