The N900’s love for other OS’s apart from Maemo keeps on growing. After Windows 95, Android, Mer and even Mac OS, @lifenexus has managed to get LDXE running on top of Mer on the N900. At bootup users are presented with an option to boot into Mer or Maemo. The alternative OS is installed on an external Micro SD card and works pretty well.
I managed to day to get Ubuntu mobile on n900. That would be MER with lxde desktop on top of it. Ill post instructions later. For now, enjoy the screens and Video.
N900 really has a large potential. the Operating system runs as fast as maemo itself and is natively installed on my SD card. It has support for wifi, charging, touch etc but no support for phone. so you cant make calls in mer. Just reboot into maemo when Done.
Nokia has rolled out the PR 1.1.1 update for the Nokia N900 via the Nokia Software Updater, over the air and has also made it available as an image from the N900 firmware repository. This is a minor update that fixes a few bugs and improves speed and transitions. The real reason for this update however seems to be to prepare the N900 for the larger PR 1.2 update that we can expect any day now.
The update is a 16.2 MB download over the air, it will be larger if you haven’t already updated to the PR 1.1 firmware. As always, it is highly recommended that you perform these updates. The N900 has user data preservation when you update over the air, however if you are going to use the NSU, make sure you backup the device first as the applications you have installed are sometimes lost during the update. Flashing the N900 manually will result in complete data loss.
As of January 14, 7am Finish time, Nokia has started rolling out the 2.2009.51 firmware update for the N900. The update is being called the PR 1.1 update and features a ton of improvements and bug fixes. It is available as an 89.5 MB over the air download if you have updated to the 1.2009.44 firmware that came out two days ago. You can also get this update via the Nokia Software Updater and can also directly flash the device with the firmware image.
As you can judge from the huge changelog below, this is a must do update. The N900 features user data preservation, so you can update without the fear of loosing data, but as always a back is recommended. You will also be glad to know that portrait mode web browsing makes an appearance as an undocumented feature which you can enable by hitting Ctrl+Shift+O on your N900’s keyboard, video demo here.
