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Mozilla to launch operating system

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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 Wiki, the company says it aims to provide a completely open source alternative to both Chrome OS and Android:

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.

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, 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.”

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 has barely made a dent so far.

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