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!important; } Thanks Simon for the info. Any idea where the code for Gonk is at
the moment? GitHub somewhere?
I might be interés in reviving this initiative.
Thanks,Jose
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On Monday, June 19, 2017, 10:11 AM, Simon Sapin <[email protected]> wrote:
On 18/06/2017 22:04, Jose Marinez via dev-servo wrote:
> So yes, there’s Redox as an alt-os in Rust and it’s quite early for
> to start thinking this way, but perhaps not. A Servo based OS would
> have many benefits. A browser engine based OS is where we should’ve
> been in 1994 if we had more CS people aware of the true nature and
> goals of the (I)nternet as imagined in the 60s and 70s.
>
> With WebAssembly and competing technologies at its core, ServoOS
> can come closer to a decentralized and scalable platform for all to
> share, use and express on.
>
> Again, from a technical perspective, what would this take to extend
> Servo to a full OS?
>
> Thanks
Hi,
You may have heard of Firefox OS, also known as Boot to Gecko (B2G).
It’s a lot like an hypothetical ServoOS in its core idea: “The Web is
the platform.”
Its components are split into three layers:
* Gonk is roughly half of Android: the kernel, device drivers, the
low-level rendering pipeline, etc. But not the Java VM, for example.
* Gecko, Firefox’s rendering engine. In the case of Firefox OS, running
directly on top of Gonk without the rest of a traditional operating system.
* Gaia, the user interface (home screen, status bar, base apps) written
in JavaScript/HTML/CSS and running on top of Gecko. All apps/websites
also run on Gecko.
Back in Servo land, a couple years ago we had an experiment called Boot
to Servo (B2S): make Servo run on top of Gonk, with the goal of
eventually being able to run Gaia and make Servo an alternative engine
for Firefox OS.
We got a prototype working on real hardware:
https://blog.servo.org/2015/02/10/twis-23/#screenshots
Last year, we removed the Gonk port from the Servo tree after Mozilla
effectively abandoned Firefox OS.
More background:
https://medium.com/@bfrancis/the-story-of-firefox-os-cb5bf796e8fb
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Simon Sapin
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