How to Try New Firefox OS on Your Linux Desktop
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 |
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Firefox OS, codenamed 'Boot 2 Gecko' is a fully web-based open mobile OS by Mozilla that will take on the smartphone market.
Having Linux underneath, Firefox OS will support everything you would expect from a smartphone including HTML5 apps written using 'open Web' technologies rather than platform-specific native APIs.
Check out a recent video by TechRadar:
Firefox OS daily builds are now available for desktop. Installing them is very easy, just follow the instructions below:
Download latest Firefox OS build from here.
Extract it to get a b2g folder.
Run the following commands to install Gaia and make a new profile:
git clone git://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia
make -C gaia profile
Now to run Firefox OS, execute:
/path/to/your/b2gfolder/b2g -profile gaia/profile
These builds are experimental meant only for developers, so don't judge them yet. Some screenshots:
Download latest Firefox OS build from here.
Extract it to get a b2g folder.
Run the following commands to install Gaia and make a new profile:
git clone git://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia
make -C gaia profile
Now to run Firefox OS, execute:
/path/to/your/b2gfolder/b2g -profile gaia/profile
These builds are experimental meant only for developers, so don't judge them yet. Some screenshots:
More info on Mozilla Wiki.
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