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sp332 on Nov 7, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Firefox OS – video presentations and slides on the...

Oh! Actually I had no idea it was based on Android, which actually makes a lot more sense for phones than the regular GNU userland. Thanks!

cpeterso on Nov 8, 2012 [–]

Using an Android kernel also allows Mozilla to leverage Google's Linux work and get hardware support "for free" from hardware vendors who won't bother writing drivers for non-Android Linux.

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