User:Stskeeps/Draft Mer Blueprint

The Mer platform is a Linux distribution for mobile devices based on the Maemo platform from Nokia. Mer goals include:


 * 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.

Mer platform development will be done in the open, with public SCM repository, bugtrackers, and Wiki-based blueprint discussion.

We should stop seeing the tablets as strictly under-powered embedded systems, and see them for what they really are: powerful, power-efficient, economical handheld computers.

Historically, the Mer platform came from a discussion on Maemo_Reconstructed reconstructing Maemo and a desire to make a proof of concept system of the thoughts in this proposal (M-R PoC), which developed into Mer after realization that it was a viable direction of development.