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by koolkao 4689 days ago
> Particularly since Firefox OS is built on top of Android

Source? I don't think this is the case

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According to Moz's website:

The lower-level "operating system" of b2g. 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. You could say that Gonk is an extremely simple linux distribution.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Architecture