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2013-04-24 , 12:48
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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
As far as I understand, it actually IS android, it's just running firefox OS as UI on top of the android layer...
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No, Firefox OS isn't running on top of the Android layer.
There are three major software layers: Gonk, Gecko, and the HTML5 layer, which includes the Gaia user-interface.
Gonk consists of a Linux kernel and userspace hardware abstraction layer (HAL). The kernel and several userspace libraries are common open-source projects: Linux, libusb, BlueZ, etc. Some other parts of the HAL are shared with the Android project: GPS, camera, among others. Gonk is basically an extremely simple Linux distribution - but definitely not Android. No Java, for example.
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