Mer (maemo.org community distrubution)

[Meizirkki]

http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer
http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/About

Mer is a new operating system for small, mobile touch-screen devices.

It is Linux based and layers the best open-source elements of Nokia's Maemo platform over a modern Ubuntu base.

The goals of Mer include:

Integrate the best solutions for a wide variety of small form-factor devices
Encourage wider access to device capabilities through the Vendor Social Contract
Demonstrably provide an easy route to market for vendors
Dramatically reduce costs to vendors of supporting EOL hardware
Focus, harness and support community contributions to the platform
Encourage and ease migration of existing applications
Support experimentation, innovation and development

So basically Mer is Maemo-platform on top of Ubuntu. This means Maemo's finger-friendly and innovative user-interface and good powersaving features with Ubuntu's software! Currently Mer looks like this. But version 0.17 is supposed to get the new, really cool Maemo 5 UI. Well, not exactly as seen on the n900, but all the open-source components available

Now Mer'd be cool on Touch Book, wouldn't it? It's running on top of Ubuntu, so most of the Ubuntu software is working on it. It's not ready yet, but i really like it on my n810. Touch Book has faster processor and graphics..


Installation how-to here (once there is Mer Touch Book images, there'll be better instructions in the Mer wiki.)

[hyc]

Sounds cool, though that's quite a long list of open issues... May destroy your MMC? sheesh...

[Meizirkki]

May destroy your MMC? sheesh...

That is just a disclaimer written with no euphemism and CAPS

[Meizirkki]

http://picasaweb.google.com/meizirkki/M ... TouchBook#

0.16testing running on my TB

[ravnen]

meizirkki: how does it perform?

[Meizirkki]

I think it's fine, but theoretically it's about 20% slower than the AIOS (armv5el vs. armv7+vfp), i haven't gotten the wlan to work yet.

[Meizirkki]

Updated installation how-to:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Documentation ... imental.29

[glenhawk]

cool, I have had no luck with ubuntu yet but I believe that it is due a slight lack in knowledge. I am getting closer (I think).
Let us all know when you get there I can't wait for an ubuntu TB.

[Govee]

I followed the instructions and all went well. Things I noticed:
1. No wireless ( I saw a failure during loading that said no module present), but wired connection worked well.
2. Tear is fas,t but once I did a search I could not select any of the search results. The touchscreeen seemed unresponsive.
3. I couldnt find a shutdown icon. I had to use term. "shutdown now" caused a reboot, but "poweroff" worked.
4. None of the available apps would down load due to dependencies that were not available.
5. Touchscreen calibration selection did nothing.

I liked the UI and the touchscreen seemed more stable.
Thanks for the work. This kind of stuff is going to make the TB a more stable flexible device.

[dpb]

You need to copy /lib/modules/ from the AI rootfs too, as the wireless module is there. After that the wireless should work.