Because B2G OS is currently under active development, and is in a prerelease state, the best way to ensure you have an up-to-date copy installed is to build and install it yourself. The articles listed on this page will guide you through building and installing B2G OS on an emulator or compatible device, or the Gaia user interface in the Firefox browser.
Building and installing B2G OS requires a significant amount of time, network bandwidth, and computational power. This page outlines the goals of the build process and the steps of that process in order to help users along the way.
The B2G installer add-on helps to solve the long-standing issue of not being able to redistribute full system builds, because of blobs (proprietary components). This article details how the add-on works, and how to install it.
This very detailed guide explains how to create OTA/FOTA update packages, which can then then be distributed to users' devices to provide software updates.
You can use Gaia within B2G, or you can run B2G OS on a mobile device or in a desktop-based simulator. This guide will help you decide which is best for your needs.
A guide to building the B2G OS simulator, which allows you to run Gaia and Web apps in a Gecko-based environment somewhat similar to an actual device, on your desktop computer.