[Sugar-devel] Fwd: [b2g] Introducing B2G to x86

[Christian Stroetmann]

A little correction:

Boot to Web (B2W)
Boot to WebKit (B2WK)

Sorry for the confusion.



Best regards
Christian Stroetmann
> Aloha
>
> I would like to inform you all about the following points:
> 1. We have registered our project Sugarfox (TM), publicated on the 9th 
> of October 2013 ([1]), at Mozilla Firefox OS and its related 
> marketplace with the creation of a partner account for our company 
> with the following short description:
>
> Sugarfox brings the learning environment Sugar in its web version 
> based on HTML and JS together with the Firefox OS.
>
> 2. To port Boot to Gecko (B2G) respectively Firefox OS on X86 was 
> already started around the year 2012 by some Mozilla supporters 
> (actually looking for the old informations led to [2]).
> 3. Because you are developing Sugar Web Activities on the web browser 
> (rendering) engine WebKit, it might be better to take our other 
> proposed project Boot to WebKit (B2W; [3]) for a fully HTML, CSS and 
> JavaScript based Sugar, though this should not be needed at all due to 
> the interoperability of the applied web technologies.
>
> Personally and honestly, I am not very interested in programming for 
> Sugarfox, because of another related project that is the updated 
> respectively extended version of B2W now called Boot to WebCore, which 
> should get our C++Core based on the Cling C/C++ interpreter besides 
> the still optionally available JavaScriptCore. For sure, this could 
> become another option for the Sugar learning environment. 
> Nevertheless, you can ask me everything related with software 
> technology, software architecture and so on.
>
>
>
> Have fun
> Christian Stroetmann
>
> [1] www.ontomax.com/newsarchive/2013/october.htm#09.October.2013
> [2] Hacking Gaia 
> developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Platform/Gaia/Hacking
> [3] Boot to WebKit and Boot to WebCore 
> www.ontonics.com/innovation/pipeline.htm#boottowebkit
>
>> This is a very interesting development as a possible base 
>> platform for a future fully html based Sugar. B2G always felt like 
>> the perfect platform for it, if not because it wouldn't (fully) work 
>> on a normal Linux distro.
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: *Hugh Tay* <hugh at hadronization.com <mailto:hugh at hadronization.com>>
>> Date: Tuesday, 25 February 2014
>> Subject: [b2g] Introducing B2G to x86
>> To: dev-b2g at lists.mozilla.org <mailto:dev-b2g at lists.mozilla.org>
>>
>>
>> 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!
>>
>>
>> Hugh
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>> dev-b2g at lists.mozilla.org <javascript:;>
>> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Daniel Narvaez
>>
>

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