Mer is a new Linux operating system, built upon a thin base of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) combined with the best open-source elements of Nokia's Maemo platform.
Goals:
- Improving and developing parts of Maemo that are of interest to the Maemo community.
- Making it easier to port existing desktop applications by hildonizing and adjusting them to the tablet form factor.
- Encouraging third party experimentation and development.
- Supporting tablet hardware no longer receiving updated OS software by Nokia.
- Making Maemo a generic platform for all tablet devices, including non-Nokia ones.
- Focusing Maemo community efforts in platform-related areas
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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Initial N810 GPS instructions
· Began cleaning up and upgrading to Fremantle beta packages
· Neo Freerunner port
· start-hildon script now uses a /etc/start-hildon.d scheme, making it easier to write control panels
· X buttons on dialogs (for cancel)
· Ubuntu MID will be based upon Mer
· Mer team SmartQ developer rebate programme
· We participated in Mozilla/Maemo Danish Weekend and had several meetings including some with Nokia on how to deal with closed source bits for HW support.
· Nokia donated two N810s to the project so we can improve N810 support.
· Presentation at MMDW about Mer: Maemo Reconstructed
· Crowd sourcing HIM layouts
· initial meeting with Ubuntu MID crowd
· Instructions on how to develop for Mer
· SmartQ7 port
· New sprint management system
· #mer IRC channel is now logged publically
· NetworkManager now uses hildon banners instead of notifications
· Full Qi port to SmartQ5/7
· New onscreen keyboard - him-arabic
· Mer will be presenting on a BoF on Mer at DebConf9 this summer
· Sound now works in N8x0 again, fixed buffer overflow in osso-dsp-loader
· Mer represented with BoF at Southeast LinuxFest
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