Welcome back! So you want to find out if all our work has paid off?? Well, on the reboot you select the “Mer on xxx” option and… HOLY CRAP!

A truly beautiful Mer splash screen shows up with a loading bar!! Woohoo!  So far so good right??

After a while waiting for it to load you will see it generate an RSA key.. and then it will ask you for a Name, and then a Username, and then – of course – your password!  I wish I had screenshots of these procedures to show you but I could not find a way to make one since network was not online and I don’t know of any hotkeys for it on an N810/Mer.  Just trust me, it does :).

So, after you input password you then meet…………..

full_mer

OMG! It’s Maemo’s ugly second cousin 4 times removed!

But it WORKS! The fact that we’ve got a full blown Ubuntu system, with the specialized gnome-based libraries that make-up the Maemo Desktop is pretty damn cool if you ask me!

“BUT!” you ask, “Just HOW much Ubuntu is this, really?” — Well, I will answer that question in my next entry.. where I transform this very alpha staged and rather cool (albeit pretty useless) Desktop into a fully functional LXDE system that looks just like a home computer!!  Stay Tuned!

And seriously… A HUGE HAT’S OFF to all of the members on the MER team!  This was a pretty straight forward install, with my only problems being of my own making – and not the process.  It gives a fully functional desktop that even connects to wireless networks!  At this time it doesn’t do much else, of course, but I must say…

IMPRESSIVE!

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