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DebConf9
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Carsten Valdemar Munk |
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| Day | DebConf day 2 (2009-07-25) |
| Room | BOF room - no video |
| Start time | 13:00 |
| Duration | 01:00 |
| Info | |
| ID | 470 |
| Event type | bof |
| Track | DebConf Unofficial |
| Language | en |
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Mer: Maemo Reconstructed
Maemo as a generic open platform for mobile devices
Presentation on Mer, a community edition of Maemo, which has as one of its goals to attempt to make Maemo a generic mobile platform. The discussion will be focused upon Mer on top of Debian in mobile devices and where the Maemo platform can help providing quality user interfaces for Debian-based operating systems on mobile devices. Demonstration of Mer on Neo Freerunner, Nokia N8x0, SmartQ5, etc will also be shown.
Mer (http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer) is a maemo.org project that aims to reconstruct the Maemo platform based on principles such as open development, developer-friendliness, hackability and multiplatform support. While originating on the Nokia Internet Tablets, Mer now supports many diverse mobile architectures, including Freerunner.
The Mer project sees modern mobile devices as the powerful, economical, power-efficient handheld computers they are and brings these devices into closer alignment in terms of API. Mer provides packages that implements a Maemo 5.0 API on top of the Debian and Ubuntu distributions. It is as well an attempt to limit application porting to a mobile OS to be a matter of adapting the application to the mobile use case.