Not sure if this might be useful to anyone, but here it is. Try at your own risk.

I installed Mer onto my N900 micro-sd card in a dual boot configuration, as per the instructions here;

http://mer-project.blogspot.com/2010...okia-n900.html

The only difference was that I used the most recent image found here. http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0...sting11.tar.gz

This works, but due to waiting for the GL support is not really useable.

Then I configured network access, and followed these instructions for installing LXDE.

apt-get update
apt-get --no-install-recommends install lxde libgtkstylus onboard
echo "exec startlxde" >> ~/.xinitrc

and reboot!

Original instructions found here for N810, but it worked for me on my N900;
http://blog.linuxniche.net/?p=64

I haven't really done much testing yet, but it seems to work reasonably well!

Enjoy!

Wow.. that's cool to see my instructions still work on a new device and after this much time . But, Mer is Mer so no surprise there.

Awesome to see someone got LXDE on their N900.. Mer+LXDE on my N810 was extremely useful for a long time with all the debian packages that ran just fine when used with a stylus.

Too bad phone stuff wouldn't work (at least, I wouldn't think so)... until that gets sorted I'd still think running Easy Debian + LXDE would be a better solution.

Yep, the instructions work and thank-you as I use LXDE/Mer on my N810 as well! For some reason on the N900 if you omit the --no-install-recommends and allow GDM to install it wouldn't boot, so I re-installed Mer and started again.

Indeed, no phone stuff as yet, but sadly I find that I can't really use my N900 as a phone anyway, due to the poor signal reception I get with it (everywhere!). I have had to go back to using my N82 as my everyday phone and using the N900 purely as an Internet tablet, which is a real shame as I originally intended to replace my N810 and my N82...

There are screenshots or video as it looks on N900? How speed of operation?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMwlchuqsXo

That does run pretty fast. You need to get a human theme so it will look more like ubuntu tho.

apt-get update
apt-get --no-install-recommends install lxde libgtkstylus onboard
echo "exec startlxde" >> ~/.xinitrc

How is this done ?
I cant get the onscreen keyboard to work. I see it, i can type. but it does not show up in terminal.
On the N900 keyboard i can not find a button for the "-"

isnt it easier to download easy debian???


no need to do some dual boot config if you ask me....

easy debian runs "inside" of maemo.
so you need resources for both OS.

mer runs on its own and can use 100% of the resources.

so i would think that mer is noticable faster than easy debian. (:

Thats true, but I didn't notice any REALLY speed increase in the youtube video (couple post above this one)...