Mer should succeed in one device first, any one device
 

My biggest expectation for mobile device is some device running open source OS and have no limitation for OS upgraded and driver open.

The closest OS is Mer and it almost already succeed except ARM CPU manufacturer refuse to provide open source driver.

Why Mer wait for special manufacturer? There are many manufacturers for same level ARM CPU. Some hope to keep sth secret for high profit but this choice shouldn't be the only choice of all manufacturers.

After Mer have been success on one platform then more hardware manufacturer will choose to compatible with Mer otherwise they will lose a big market.

All user who have suffered from 18 month support then be abandoned and forced to buy new device should push independent mobile OS.

Mer should find the best way to success and not just wait for sth happen.

Mer perhaps doesn't have same goal with one ARM cpu manufacturer but independent OS shouldn't depend on any one. It should be the leader of this history trend.

Re: Mer should succeed in one device first, any one device
 

Right, Look at MeeGo instead - they seem to want open source drivers too. But for most visions and ideas, MeeGo is the way to go.

I'll still be providing a Fremantle base for N8x0 under the Mer 'brand'.

Re: Mer should succeed in one device first, any one device
 

The problem with Megoo is that it's not Maemo. It is built with QT and RPM. I for instance want GTK+ and Debian. That is one of the goods with Mer.

I have not yet had any experiance of Mer but have looked more and more on it lately. (In swedish, Mer = More)

Btw.. How well do Mer run on N900, are the phone functions working?

And i do support u2meamos thoughts..

Re: Mer should succeed in one device first, any one device
 

What I'm hoping from Mer eventually would be something like what Openinkpot is trying to be to e-readers(a generic independant distro one can deploy on multiple e-readers). A generic independant distro one could deploy on a tablet device and have it work. MeeGo I don't really see it going that way.

Re: Mer should succeed in one device first, any one device
 

I don't see any conflicts in MeeGo with that aim.

Re: Mer should succeed in one device first, any one device
 

It's governed by Intel and Nokia, and Linux Fundation is it's home. Frankly I don't really trust any of the three to be on the same page. But that's simply a personal reason.

Re: Mer should succeed in one device first, any one device
 

And it's open source from the beginning. Fork, if needed.

Re: Mer should succeed in one device first, any one device
 

From what I've read, Mer is dead; Meego, I don't know, too early to say. I'd certainly like something that prolongs the life of the n8x0, since the n900 is not the replacement I want for them.

Re: Mer should succeed in one device first, any one device
 

Huh, so Mer is dead just like that? I guess Meego have a better chance being that it will have too strong companies behind it to make sure it goes well in a way ubuntu does. While Mer, although have community support was more of a one man project, which we can all understand is extremely hard. Well, I have no problems with it, as someone else mentioned, long as my N810 is supported until something better comes along.

Re: Mer should succeed in one device first, any one device
 

Well that's pretty disrespectful, when the Mer project leader, Stskeeps, said above he's commited to Mer for N8xx devices.

And for the other guy, Maemo6 IS MeeGo, and will be the first instance of MeeGo for commercial use, though still retaining the .deb packaging at the moment.. It will be the foundation for MeeGo's Handheld UI, and the Netbook UI will ditch the old Moblin stuff, borrow elements of that UI, and the Qt UI toolkit for its construction, so that both have a familiar feel. The .rpm packaging issue really isn't one. Its just a file format at the end of the day. Just repackage the apps and keep moving.

Re: Mer should succeed in one device first, any one device
 

Mer has a better chance now, since more open stuff will be available. It'll mainly be for legacy devices.

Re: Mer should succeed in one device first, any one device
 

No disrespect was intended; I was basing my comments on what I read on what appears to be the Mer project blog.
That reads to me as though Mer as an alternative OS is over.

It then goes on to saySo, there may be a new project with a new name to effectively backport Fremantle to N8x0. Maybe it's semantics, but that all looks to me as though Mer itself is being wound up; some of the work already done may be built upon to give us something on the N8x0 at some point, which I'd love to see, but I'm not sure I'm holding my breath when that work is not going to be part of an ongoing project which would have been the case, if I understand what Mer was going to be.