Mer for Nokia 770 N800, N810W, and X86, version 0.7

Information about Mer can be found at http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer and release information and released files on http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Releases/0.7. It also has a list of known issues so please read them through first before installing. If the pages show white, force reload (temporary problem).

If you own a N8x0(W), use the installer mentioned here. 770 instructions here

Next release is 15th February 2009 (0.8).

Highlights of this release:
* Now with working osso-xterm
* Hildon application manager & control panel
* Now with zipped VMDK image (approx 183mb) so you can run Mer both in VirtualBox and VMware and other VMDK-supporting virtual machine software. You can use this to try out Mer on your x86 or even develop applications for Mer.
* 770 support (thanks to RST38h for spotting an unaligned data access in sapwood)
* Clipboard support and improved first boot wizard
* Python bindings for hildon, GTK, etc
* Droid Sans fonts in use in theme
* Better N8x0 installer and .install file to make it easier to install
* Proper localization strings (Now Home instead of home_ap_home_view)
* Gnome-keyring is now pacified and not bothering you when connecting to WiFi networks.
* An error is showed if incompatible bootmenu is used.

Mer is still a work in progress and as such you should not expect too much of it - feel free to join and help us out if you think something is missing

Thanks to the people involved in the sprint 0.7 that has lead to this release: b-man, wazd, zenvoid, Jaffa, johnx, DarkenCZ, qwerty12, RST38h, r2d2rogers, Meizirkki & thopiekar and others who contributed but not mentioned here - and thanks to Maemo SW for the updated Fremantle components in Fremantle pre-alpha2 SDK.

If you would like to participate, read through http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/People and http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Sprints and see if there's anything you can help out with. We're on #maemo (or #mer) on FreeNode, IRC, if you'd like to hang out and discuss.

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Together with this 0.7 release we would like to ask the members of this forum a question, since we will be bringing Fremantle components to the N8x0(W), 770 devices. There are quite interesting discussions with Nokia going on about being able to provide community firmware images through maemo.org to Nokia tablet users, which could include closed source applications, drivers, etc. (see http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Community...e_distribution). Associated with that we have to provide a list of what packages/applications, bits and pieces of Diablo we would like to distribute as part of these images, for legal discussion.

We would then like to ask you users, what you would expect as part of these future firmware images, and to write why these ought to be part of the community firmware images - why are they important for you to have on your tablet.

Please restrict yourself to the closed source components as part of your answers. If you know of a proper open source replacement for a closed source component, you are welcome to write these as well so we can consider these for inclusion in the standard images. If they are OK to just to be downloadable through the Application Manager, note this as well.

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