Hi Hugh, On 02/25/2014 05:30 AM, Hugh Tay wrote: > Hello everyone, > > > I would like to initiate a new open-source community project to port FireFox > OS to the Intel/AMD x86-64 platform. > > I'm thinking along the lines of the port for RasPi that Oleg Romashin > developed - executing Gecko on top of a vanilla Linux kernel with only the > essential drivers/libraries loaded. > > Supposedly this method would let us run FF-OS on an x86 PC like other Linux > distros; e.g. Ubuntu, Fedora; just that its UI would be Gecko instead of KDE > or Gnome. > > This way we should also be able to reduce our dependence on Android as the > backbone of FireFox OS. > > Perhaps further down the line we could also take advantage of UEFI booting > and B2G in < 10 seconds? > > Would anyone be interested in contributing to this effort? > > Looking forward to an exciting time ahead!
I'm looking for someone to work a piece of that as part of the google summer of code: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Community:SummerOfCode14#Firefox_OS_.2F_Boot2Gecko Fabrice -- Fabrice Desré b2g team Mozilla Corporation _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
