Mer/About
Background
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
- Allow easy access to the capabilities these devices offer
- Allow hardware to be useful even after manufacturer updates cease
- Providing an open foundation that demonstrably provides an easy route to market for vendors such as SmartQ
- Drive the Vendor Social Contract
- Focus, harness and support community contributions to the platform
- Encourage and ease migration of existing desktop applications
- Encouraging third party experimentation and development
Mission
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.
Status
Mer is new and constantly developing so the status of support for hardware and applications is steadily improving.
History
Mer has evolved from discussion around reconstructing Maemo and a desire to make a proof of concept system of these thoughts. The M-R PoC developed into Mer after it was realised that it was - indeed - a viable environment for both developers and end-users.
Screenshots
You can see the current release screenshots here
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