Maemo + Ubuntu = big love coming true?

What’s one the biggest mainstream open source communities? Well Ubuntu of course and everyone including Nokia and Google has been given Ubuntu big hugs of love lately.
We’ve already been reading about Androids involvement in the Ubuntu community, and we’ve been given you the lowdown here on Mobile Royale about Nokias upcoming Linux Maemo phones. But what’s Nokia been cooking lately on the Debian and Ubuntu front?

Well what do you get if you blend a pinch of Meamo (Nokias Linux project used on the internet tablets) with Ubuntu and Debian (deblet) You get a an alpha version of Mer sdk a mix of touch friendly UI and a Debian enviroment with advantages like:

* Huge software collection (since debian supports ARM, but will need UI patches for some of them)

* Strong community lead by a community with the precious help of companies like nokia, canonical, novel and others (for code or infrastructure )

* Follows the Unix + GNU philosophy (don’t reinvent the wheel)

* Supports OMAP3 CPU through BeagleBoard (and probably upcoming n900)

We at Mobile Royale bring you some video-shots of the Mer SDK, looks alot like the Maemo SDK don’t you think?

Sources:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer : project HQ

* http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Hardware/Freerunner : Dedicated page for FR

* http://goshawknest.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/eshopen-alpha-image-for-the-freerunner/ : rootfs from goshawk

* http://en.theorasea.org/story.php?title=mer–watch-freerunner-demo–best-maemo–debian%2Fubuntu-mobiles : Video ogv/theora

* http://www.untitledocument.net/musique/ : Silence’s Plume (soundtrack)

* http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/ : License : Audio+Video

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