Thread: Complaint of the week: I have a N800 and I am not dead yet
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2009-12-16 , 20:09
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Originally Posted by josh View Post
I personally got interested in Maemo by getting an N800 through a developer device discount. I like my N800, as well as my new N900. I don't, however, have any complaint that Nokia hasn't made Maemo 5 work on the N800; among other things, how do you expect to get a UI heavily dependent on graphical effects and compositing to work on a device with hardly any graphics acceleration for those things?

As Texrat said, take a look at Mer; it tries to create an OS based on parts of Maemo 5 that will work on many devices, including the N800 and N810. Furthermore, Mer has some community building up around it.
I know Maemo5's crazy effects wouldn't be possible on the N800 relatively modest hardware. But it is not so modest, and it can be improved in many ways that are not related to just increasing the processor power.

Don't get me wrong: I like Mer, I hope to start using it soon. The thing is: I don't want to be in the "Mer community". I don't want to see a separate "Maemo 5 community", "Mer community" and a "people-who-don't-know-they-are-dead community". It just adds up to the schism with the "770 community" that I don't even know much because I jumped in the boat in 2008. So much for a "Maemo" community, huh?

Will I really be able to use programs developed for Maemo 5 with Mer, or will it be always "a dirty little crazy hack" to use Maemo 5 programs? Will I always be having to check out if some bug in a program is a Mer problem before reporting as being a proper program bug? I am asking because I am afraid it might happen, that's my life experience... If it is being difficult to implement the Mer idea, I can only imagine it will be difficult to maintain.

What about Maemo 6? Will it create another community? The N900 people will be isolated? Will Mer be able to come again to the rescue of both the N900 users and N810?... I certainly hope so, I would like to help. But I don't feel much like it when I come to the forum and it's all about complaining about N900 delays. I'm on the other side, of the "old-time and left-in-the-cold" users, and I am calling my colleagues to unite and become stronger!...
 

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