Hello to all, I’m a (very next) future french user of our famous Fairphone and I’m very glad of that quite fantastic idea (and I thank you at once to excuse my poor english)! I would just like to know here if it is (or will be) possible to replace the Fairphone OS based on Androïd by the new Mozil…

The issue has indeed been discussed (and will continue to be, I guess): [image] Closed Poll: Future Fairphone OS Development The Products Continuing the discussion from Future Android version for the Fairphone with an Unofficial Community Poll: Which would you prefer Fai…

Just to add this, there is someone over at XDA-dev who is trying to get CyanogenMod 11 (based on KitKat) to work smoothly. Some people here already tried run it, as you can see from the thread, but I will wait probably quite some time until this develops further. Maybe, chrmhoffmann is our best cha…

[image] humorkritik: Just to add this, there is someone over at XDA-dev who is trying to get CyanogenMod 11 (based on KitKat) to work smoothly. Some people here already tried run it, as you can see from the thread, but I will wait probably quite some time until this develops further. This is …

[image] ben: This is actually important because interested developers could build on this for Firefox OS porting to Fairphone since both are Android based (at least somehow). Firefox OS isn’t Android based. That cyanogenmod can be run on FairPhone doesn’t mean FireFox OS developers can do an…

[image] Jerry: Firefox OS isn’t Android based. Yes it is! Well i simplified a bit, but still: Firefox OS uses a Kernel derived from Android. It even uses the same graphics “stack”, the part of the software “drawing”. The Firefox Os Porting Guide even assumes you are starting with a device run…

Oh! I didn’t know. I only read stuff about it being based on a Linux kernel. I guess I learned something today :slight_smile:

Here the link to the general XDA “Firefox OS porting” forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2422687 … but the Fairphone specific posts are still rare … http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=306038464

Fairphone wants to give more clarity on our approach to open source software. We’re lucky that we have a passionate open-source advocate on our site, software team member Kees, and in the next months ahead we want to share our progress and outlook on what does “open source software” mean for Fairpho…

Mozilla OS... for our Fairphone?

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kgha September 11, 2014, 2:38pm 2

The issue has indeed been discussed (and will continue to be, I guess):