Posted by
samzenpus
on from the growing-everyday dept.
Proph3t writes "The up and coming operating system, SkyOS has just announced the ports of Thunderbird and Firefox, both in their 1.0 stable versions. Moreover, they will be releasing a 30-page guide on how to port these two excellent Mozilla applications to alternative operating systems soon."
Re:Never ceases to amaze me
by
Momoru
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Personally I think things like SkyOS are MORE exciting then *nix based systems. Just because linux etc are open source doesn't make it the best. Its still basically based on a 30 year old operating system. I really like the idea of a system written from scratch, and although it would be nice if it were open source, i don't see anything wrong with another commercial competitor. Just the fact that he was able to port Firefox "easily" makes it seem that he has put some thought into making an OS that will support common applications.
Re:Never ceases to amaze me
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sethadam1
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Oh, I'd strongely disagree. You made your own case:
What Be did with the BeOS is STILL exciting, so much so that there are no fewer than 3 groups trying to do the same thing open source, there are efforts to finalize Reiser4 and WinFS, both of which appear to build on the work on Dominic Giampolo's BFS, and I'd argue than most OS'es are still behind in UI responsiveness.
Why is it exciting? Because if Robert and crew come up with something amazing, it might be one day the next big player. And if not, maybe they can introduce some new ideas that make their way to other OS projects.
So, when is somebody gonna port Firefox for the Xbox? Those of us who use all the other wonderful user built apps and homebrews on the Xbox only have one choice at the moment for web browsing: Linksbox. While decent, I'd love to have Firefox on there. Would be useful for those times where I'm too lazy to get up and use the computer. Any takers?
Re:Possibly interesting for Syllable developers
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Vanders
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I'm looking forward to reading the HOWTO. It should be useful. I wasn't really involved in the discussion on porting Firefox to Syllable but the information from various people on the mailing lists, which in turn came from the various documentation available from the Mozilla guys, was that in order to port FF we would have to port the entire Mozilla codebase, starting at XPCOM and working up. That is obviously not the case; Robert has ported FF directly to SkyOS, so we must have taken a wrong turn at some point. I beleive that Roberts port is actually the first port os Firefox that was not already based on an existing Mozilla port, so maybe the Mozilla documentation was wrong? I don't know.
Anyway, fair play to Robert for completing the port. At this point Syllable has a new version of ABrowse which is based on a much newer KHTML, and once Robert releases his HOWTO I'm sure we'll see some activity in porting FF to Syllable too.
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Personally I think things like SkyOS are MORE exciting then *nix based systems. Just because linux etc are open source doesn't make it the best. Its still basically based on a 30 year old operating system. I really like the idea of a system written from scratch, and although it would be nice if it were open source, i don't see anything wrong with another commercial competitor. Just the fact that he was able to port Firefox "easily" makes it seem that he has put some thought into making an OS that will support common applications.
Oh, I'd strongely disagree. You made your own case:
What Be did with the BeOS is STILL exciting, so much so that there are no fewer than 3 groups trying to do the same thing open source, there are efforts to finalize Reiser4 and WinFS, both of which appear to build on the work on Dominic Giampolo's BFS, and I'd argue than most OS'es are still behind in UI responsiveness.
Why is it exciting? Because if Robert and crew come up with something amazing, it might be one day the next big player. And if not, maybe they can introduce some new ideas that make their way to other OS projects.
So, when is somebody gonna port Firefox for the Xbox? Those of us who use all the other wonderful user built apps and homebrews on the Xbox only have one choice at the moment for web browsing: Linksbox. While decent, I'd love to have Firefox on there. Would be useful for those times where I'm too lazy to get up and use the computer. Any takers?
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I'm looking forward to reading the HOWTO. It should be useful. I wasn't really involved in the discussion on porting Firefox to Syllable but the information from various people on the mailing lists, which in turn came from the various documentation available from the Mozilla guys, was that in order to port FF we would have to port the entire Mozilla codebase, starting at XPCOM and working up. That is obviously not the case; Robert has ported FF directly to SkyOS, so we must have taken a wrong turn at some point. I beleive that Roberts port is actually the first port os Firefox that was not already based on an existing Mozilla port, so maybe the Mozilla documentation was wrong? I don't know.
Anyway, fair play to Robert for completing the port. At this point Syllable has a new version of ABrowse which is based on a much newer KHTML, and once Robert releases his HOWTO I'm sure we'll see some activity in porting FF to Syllable too.
Syllable : It's an Operating System