On Monday, Mozilla, the developer behind the popular Firefox web browser, revealed preliminary plans for a universal-platform mobile OS called Boot to Gecko (or B2G). It will feature the Linux-based Android kernel and device drivers beneath a custom user interface and application stack based on Gecko, the Firefox and Thunderbird HTML rendering engine. Although the team already has a demo up and running, the project is still in its “infancy” as Mozilla research engineer Andreas Gal states - bits and pieces still remain in their heads, others aren't fully explored.
2DayBlog.com, Mozilla to build smartphone OS using Android kernel
