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Firefox OS Coming To Raspberry Pi

Posted by Soulskill on from the raspberry-fox?-fire-pi? dept.

ControlsGeek writes Mozilla plans to build a version of its Firefox OS for use in the Raspberry Pi. Plans are afoot to build a version capable of (1) being run on the Pi hardware and (2) eventually achieving parity with Raspbian and (3) enable easy development for robotics.

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  1. Re:Low power CPU meet bloated pOS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The reason to get a Raspberry Pi is the software support. Sure, you can get any number of cheaper, faster boards made in china anywhere. But you basically have to build whatever your thing is from scratch. The Pi had excellent marketing and as a result is a standard device that there's tons of software for. So yes, it's not the most powerful by any stretch or even the most power for money. It's the best choice for software. It's the same reason the x86 PC "won".

  2. What is the point? by asa · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What was the point of Firefox? IE was free and was a proven and already well-established browser. By your logic, we never should have built Firefox and the Web should have stalled with IE6 in 2002.

    The world needs a truly open mobile OS as much as it needed a truly open browser a decade ago. Android is open in name only and Google is hurriedly moving its most lucrative components into closed proprietary services and apps that aren't a part of open source Android. iOS is as closed as everything Apple does. Windows is getting some nice HTML5 support for apps, but not nearly enough. There's clearly an opportunity for HTML5 apps to compete on mobile if someone can build a solid alternative platform to the monopolies and silos we're all stuck with today.