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Title: SkyOS guide to porting Mozilla to an new OS
Post by: spihunter on December 23, 2004, 03:29:19 PM
The SkyOS people have ported Firefox & Thunderbird to their OS. They are also going to realease A 30 page guide on "how to port mozilla to new OS guide".

Amizilla bounty anyone?


 :-o

 SkyOS website (http://www.skyos.org/)
Title: Re: SkyOS guide to porting Mozilla to an new OS
Post by: whabang on December 23, 2004, 03:33:52 PM
"Connection timed out"

Has this been /.ed?
Title: Re: SkyOS guide to porting Mozilla to an new OS
Post by: SamuraiCrow on December 23, 2004, 04:21:57 PM
Yep.  A quick Google for SkyOS revealed the SlashDot article at the top of the list.  Only 2 hours old...
Title: Re: SkyOS guide to porting Mozilla to an new OS
Post by: spihunter on December 23, 2004, 04:22:12 PM
Yea,

Their getting /.ed & OSnewsed!

hella of a beating :whack:
Title: Re: SkyOS guide to porting Mozilla to an new OS
Post by: Acill on December 23, 2004, 04:56:01 PM
Thats just sad that a newOS with limited application support has Mozilla and we still dont for Amiga or like systems. What is the deal with that?

Screenshot here for all you interested: http://www.techimo.com/photo/showphoto.php/photo/6797
Title: Re: SkyOS guide to porting Mozilla to an new OS
Post by: Cymric on December 23, 2004, 05:53:05 PM
The deal is, quite simply, that the terms under which Amizilla must be developed in order to get the bounty---OS3.x compatibility most notably---kill the project as surely as 1 plus 1 makes 2. SkyOS apparently has a better infrastructure so it can carry the weight of a complex program like Mozilla far more easily. Enough has been said on this matter elsewhere (you can look up the discussions on this site), so I am not going to rehearse the arguments presented there.
Title: Re: SkyOS guide to porting Mozilla to an new OS
Post by: Acill on December 23, 2004, 06:43:29 PM
No argument intended. I agree that os 3.x should not be a factor in getting a Mozilla port. I just hope that when this "guide" comes out someone would make a OS4 and/or a MorphOS port. It would be nice to have.
Title: Re: SkyOS guide to porting Mozilla to an new OS
Post by: spihunter on December 23, 2004, 06:55:12 PM
@Cymric,
I was thinking OS4  port when I started this topic. I forgot about all the OS3.x compatability stuff

 :-?

Shouldnt have brought up the bounty

My bad

Title: Re: SkyOS guide to porting Mozilla to an new OS
Post by: Cymric on December 23, 2004, 07:31:21 PM
Aha, okay, I agree that with OS4 things are somewhat better positioned for sure, yes.
Title: Re: SkyOS guide to porting Mozilla to an new OS
Post by: bloodline on December 23, 2004, 08:07:43 PM
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Aha, okay, I agree that with OS4 things are somewhat better positioned for sure, yes.


:lol: