{"id":18709,"date":"2011-07-26T11:35:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T09:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=18709"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:58:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:58:27","slug":"mozilla-to-launch-operating-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mozilla-to-launch-operating-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla to launch operating system"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mozilla<\/strong> have announced plans to launch a 100% open source web based operating system using the same “Gecko” engine that drives Firefox<\/a><\/strong>. “Boot to Gecko<\/strong>” will be developed as a rival to Google’s own semi open-source operating system project “Chrome OS<\/a>” and will also eventually work on Android phones. In a post on the Mozilla Wiki<\/a>, the company says it aims to provide a completely open source alternative to both Chrome OS and Android:<\/p>\n

Mozilla believes that the web can displace proprietary, single-vendor stacks for application development. To make open web technologies a better basis for future applications on mobile and desktop alike, we need to keep pushing the envelope of the web to include – and in places exceed – the capabilities of the competing stacks in question.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mozilla plan to release the source code in real time and have said that it will also include some low-level Android code so that it runs on Android phones. In a discussion forum<\/a>, one of the developers stated that the ultimate aim of Boot to Gecko is to “break the stranglehold of proprietary technologies over the mobile device world.”<\/p>\n

It’s certainly an ambitious move by Mozilla and you’d hope that they eventually come up with a more snappy name for it than “Boot to Gecko”. Mozilla will also have their work seriously cut-out if they are to rival Windows and OS X considering that Google’s Chrome OS<\/strong><\/a> has barely made a dent so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mozilla have announced plans to launch a 100% open source web based operating system using the same “Gecko” engine that drives Firefox. “Boot to Gecko” will be developed as a rival to Google’s own semi open-source operating system project “Chrome OS” and will also eventually work on Android phones. In a post on the Mozilla … Continue reading “Mozilla to launch operating system”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-18709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t