| Company / developer | Mozilla Corporation |
|---|---|
| Working state | Proposed, In Development |
| Source model | Open Source[1] |
| Initial release | In Development |
| Supported platforms | ARM |
| Kernel type | Linux |
| Default user interface | Graphical |
Boot 2 Gecko is a proposed open source operating system in development by Mozilla Corporation, initially targeting Android-compatible smartphones.
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In September 2010, Mozilla released photos and a 3D video tour of a concept phone, the Mozilla Seabird, shown by product designer Billy May for the Mozilla Labs' Concept Series.[2] At the time, it was hypothesized that this was merely a concept, never to see the light of day.[3]
On July 25, 2011, Dr. Andreas Gal, Director of Research at Mozilla Corporation, announced on the mozilla.dev.platform mailing list a project to "pursue the goal of building a complete, standalone operating system for the open web" in order to "find the gaps that keep web developers from being able to build apps that are --- in every way --- the equals of native apps built for the iPhone, Android, and WP7."[4] The announcement identified these work areas: new Web APIs to expose device and OS capabilities such as telephony and camera, a privilege model to safely expose these to web pages, applications to prove these capabilities, and low-level code to boot an Android-compatible device.
This led to much blog coverage.[5][6] According to Ars Technica, "Mozilla says that B2G is motivated by a desire to demonstrate that the standards-based open Web has the potential to be a competitive alternative to the existing single-vendor application development stacks offered by the dominant mobile operating systems."[7]
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