Category Archives: Linux

flashblock port to MicroB

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Pretty neat to see someone ported over flashblock to run on MicroB on the N810. I haven’t looked at the code to see how they do it, but I’ll bet it was a rough ride since that’s written in C … Continue reading →

Posted in Embedding, Fennec, Firefox, Linux, Mobile, Mozilla, N800, N810 | 3 Comments

some random mozilla-related links for your enjoyment

Posted on May 30, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Ari Jaaksi talks about Linux on Phones and what’s going on at Nokia. He mentions that he’s working with us at Mozilla – very true. And good fodder for another post on another day. He also touches on an important … Continue reading →

Posted in Design, Firefox, GNOME, Google, Linux, Mobile, Mozilla, Open Web | 1 Comment

mozilla on directfb

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Over the last few months some of our contributors have been hacking away on trying to get Mozilla running on directfb systems on top of gtk. You can see Niranjan’s latest post on the topic here as well as the … Continue reading →

Posted in Embedding, Firefox, GNOME, Linux, Mobile, Mozilla | 6 Comments

more background on fsync on linux

Posted on May 25, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Mike Shaver put up an excellent piece on the current status of the fsync issues on Linux. It’s worth a read if you care about such things.

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mozilla unit testing on linux

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Rob Campbell posted a howto for people who want to run Mozilla unit tests on Linux. If you’ve ever wondered how to do it, it’s a decent overview on how to get started. And it’s pretty relevant to what I … Continue reading →

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I call lolerskates

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

I lost power last night and I finally decided it was time to buy a UPS. I’ve never actually owned one. I go out to the store this morning and buy one, bring it home, plug it in and I … Continue reading →

Posted in Fedora, Kicking My Ass, Linux | 11 Comments

fedora + seneca college

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Hey, this is awesome stuff. Nice job, Greg! It’s going to be a great fit. The Seneca guys are fantastic.

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system components, fsync and distribution-specific changes: a cautionary tale

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Almost every single Firefox user on Linux gets their builds directly from the various distributions. Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, Debian (down-branded), Novell, Foresight, etc. And in those cases users generally have a pretty good experience. But that’s not always the … Continue reading →

Posted in Fedora, Firefox, GNOME, Linux, Mozilla, Novell, Red Hat, Ubuntu | 21 Comments

last minute meeting about mozilla embedding in mountain view – come if you’re in town!

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

At Mozilla we’ve been doing a lot of work on mobile and one aspect of that work is to make it easier to embed Mozilla into other applications. We’ve been pretty focused on end user features, product and platform in … Continue reading →

Posted in Embedding, GNOME, Linux, Mobile | 7 Comments

whatwg video support for your phone

Posted on April 3, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Above is a video that I took of Chris Double’s awesome whatwg video work running on my N810. Note that I didn’t have to do anything special to get this to work. I took the two patches, applied them to … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Freedom, GNOME, Linux, Mobile, Mozilla, N800, N810, Open Web, Red Hat, Video, XULRunner | 11 Comments