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2009-04-29
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As you may have noticed, Nokia moved on to Fremantle, and there will likely be no more support for the current tablets from Nokia.
You can see Mer as a backport of Fremantle technology to 770, N800, and N810. Nokia is helping the Mer team on hardware and driver issues.
Mer is still in an early stage, so don't expect to use it as your main OS yet. But eventually, it will be able to replace Diablo.
You can see Mer as a backport of Fremantle technology to 770, N800, and N810. Nokia is helping the Mer team on hardware and driver issues.
Mer is still in an early stage, so don't expect to use it as your main OS yet. But eventually, it will be able to replace Diablo.
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2009-04-30
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One of the other main advantages is that Mer is based on Ubuntu, which means that a huge amount of additional software is available. Not all of it is suitable for NITs, but plenty of it will work fine. If you don't like the default app for a task, there will likely be others available.
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2009-04-30
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Anyone knows when mer will support a2dp?
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2009-04-30
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Originally Posted by sachin007
I'm actually not sure if it does already, - but it probably will with PulseAudio (we need someone to write a PA plugin for the DSP tasks - any takers? Protocol is very simple and implemented quite simply in osso-esd and other places).
Anyone knows when mer will support a2dp?
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2009-05-03
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Originally Posted by jaem
That additional software will need to be recompiled for the NITs CPUs tho, right? So it's not like it is available now, but can be made available for NITs quite a bit easier than what it takes now, correct?
One of the other main advantages is that Mer is based on Ubuntu, which means that a huge amount of additional software is available. Not all of it is suitable for NITs, but plenty of it will work fine. If you don't like the default app for a task, there will likely be others available.
If I need a fast (but fully Google-compatible) browser, broad support of IM and SIP/Skype (voice-chats only) are there any advantages of moving to Mer now? In 6 months? In a year?
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2009-05-03
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Originally Posted by stangri
The vast majority of software in the Ubuntu repositories is already compiled for ARM.
That additional software will need to be recompiled for the NITs CPUs tho, right? So it's not like it is available now, but can be made available for NITs quite a bit easier than what it takes now, correct?
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I feel this should have been asked already but I cant find a post about it. So what is different in Mer? I guess what I'm asking is 'is Mer for me?' in that I'm fairly happy with how my tablet functions with Diablo at the moment. I think the main reasons why I would switch would be if OpenOffice was faster than through Debian chroot and if mouse support was faster, specifically bluetooth mouse.
There may well be things I hadnt even considered that are fantastic about Mer and if so I'd love for you to tell me as I always enjoy discovering new things to do with my NIT.
Thanks,
RichS