Boot to Gecko - Mozilla's next project

By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 27 July 2011, 00:16 IST
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Bangalore: Mozilla has just acknowledged their plans to launch an operating system that will eventually work on mobile devices and tablets. The operating system will be inspired by the Chrome OS. The project is known as Boot to Gecko (B2G), will have Google's Android OS at its core, The company announced that they will try to complete the task by using as little of Android as possible.The project will be known as Boot to Gecko and its code can be availed by the public reportedly. Developers for the project B2G has made up a point for the project to end up as a "complete, standalone operating system for the open web." Inspite of using HTML5, the developers intend to create applications that will live up to the standards of native applications for iOS or Android.