Mer/Releases/0.15
Release not fully done yet.
Notable accomplishments and news
- Faster docpurge (thanks to qwerty12)
- glib2.20 now used
- N8x0: Open hald-addon-bme (You can enable advanced power and get battery meter)
- Our USB networking now uses IPs matching USB_Networking, Mer/USB_Networking and bootmenu. 192.168.2.14 for host, 2.15 for device.
- New webkit browser: Tear, by Bundyo
- E-mail client: Claws-mail
- lbt will be presenting at UKUUG 09: see Mer/Events/UKUUG_09
- Stskeeps and zenvoid will be doing a BoF on DebConf9, 2009-07-25 13:00 on Mer
- Changed default language to en_US, and added new open source strings by timeless
- Added Chinese translations
- Proper localization on Neo Freerunner
- No more cursor blinking in X-Terminal
- 770 support TBA
- Smart Q7 rebate on Mer/Proposals/SmartQ_Developer_Programme not possible - but help us get to 10 proposals or above so we can get Q5 rebates!
- N8x0: Kalle Valo is doing a kernel mainlining project - see http://kvalo.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/n800n810-support-to-mainline-kernels/ - it is very recommended if you have any contributions to make that you make them. It will get us modern kernels on N8x0.
- N8x0: Mer kernels now have new patches: Japanese FM Radio frequencies for N800, MB2504 fixed, Patch to kernel to allow DSP framebuffer sharing on N8x0 devices) to kernel, nbd in kernel modules, A2DP improvements - thanks too tomaszd for integrating
- Q5/Q7: Backlight parameter for kernel (zenvoid)
- First boot wizard is now a /etc/first-boot-wizard.d process, like start-hildon.d - easy to add first boot wizard items to run. (epage)
- Removed marquee plugins which were not working or broken
- Add 'Network Settings' option to menu that appears when networking is disabled for nm-applet
- Locale picker by qwerty12 and timeless
- Disable grab in gksu for n800/non-kbd users
- Input, About control panel (epage)
- N8x0: Now uses Xomap instead of Xorg. Should make graphics more smooth.
Released images
| MD5sum | URL | Description |
| fd772f6414ce22ca1f8807dc388a8025 | http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0.15/mer-armel-n8x0-image-v0.15.jffs2 | flashable image for Nokia N8x0 port, JFFS2 part (requires kernel below) |
| 136a715927dec5489f2b001bc7705796 | http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0.15/mer-armel-n8x0-flashrootfs-v0.15.zImage | flashable image for Nokia N8x0 port, Kernel part (requires jffs2 above) |
| 5414ba9d871bf99a95d83ef8d65dcaf9 | http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0.15/mer-armel-n8x0-standard-v0.15.zImage | kernel for standard setups, Nokia N8x0 port. Use to get extra features (working USBnet on XP, etc) |
| 41a92764e1bf12b34e57b4028066a90f | http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0.15/mer-armel-n8x0-image-v0.15.tar.gz | rootfs tar.gz for Nokia N8x0 port |
| f9fdf6e3e994d5b5807e343b14f8e3a1 | http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0.15/mer-x86-generic-image-v0.15.tar.gz | rootfs for X86, generic |
| 1ee4e418a0c4f9e6450b491fe41d5691 | http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0.15/mer-x86-generic-image-v0.15.vmdk.zip | VMDK, X86 for VirtualBox, VMware, etc. |
| 6bb7296fd3458570562835bf4c12a13b | http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0.15/mer-armel-smartq5-rootfs-v0.15.tar.gz | rootfs for SmartQ5 |
| 58908cefa4c1d7a58b2f1e136a6a0932 | http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0.15/mer-armel-smartq5-image-v0.15.SmartQ5 | firmware image for SmartQ5 |
| 6aa2e91283c3eebc88e4f5f22fc8038a | http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0.15/mer-armel-smartq7-rootfs-v0.15.tar.gz | rootfs for SmartQ7 |
| d4ad7ecaa4b5d7fa1276f6e5307ac7da | http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0.15/mer-armel-smartq7-image-v0.15.SmartQ7 | firmware image for SmartQ7 |
| 0a4ae087ae1b49807f488f8c7bb61182 | http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0.15/mer-armel-freerunner-rootfs-v0.15.tar.gz | rootfs for Neo Freerunner. |