To: i...@makeplaylive.com Several times, I attempted to email from makeplaylive's contact us form after entering the characters in the box but my email was never sent. Perhaps there is a bug on your contact us form?
For over a year, I have been a member of Linux on Smal ARM devices mailing list. I have been waiting for a board using Rhombus-tech's EOMA68-A20 CPU Card. Congratulations on manufacturing such a board. Congratulations on making improv board open source hardware. I was surprised with your choice of preinstalling Mer Linux on Improv board. Neither MakeplayLive's website nor Mer's website adequately describe Mer linux. Hence, I joined the Mer Linux mailing list to ask for a description. I am even more disappointed reading their answer. By not preinstalling a full linux desktop, you are leaving out a significant percentage of the population interested in open source hardware. I am not a programmer. I do not know command line. Even if I did, I do not want to struggle installing numerous pacakges that are by default preinstalled in typical linux distros. Furthermore, I would not be able to checksum afterwards. I need a full graphical linux desktop who's download can be checksummed. Who has preinstalled graphical packages such as package manager, plain text editor, PDF viewer, printer and scanner drivers, scanner software such as simple scan, Disk Utility, firewall, etc. Please advise if you reconsider. Thanks. ----- Original message ----- From: Davide Bettio <davide.bet...@ispirata.com> To: mer-general@lists.merproject.org Subject: Re: [mer-general] List of preinstalled packages? Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 20:14:21 +0100 Hello, On 04/12/2013 18:56, freebi...@fastmail.fm wrote: > I looked for a list of preinstalled packages in Mer but didn't find > it. Could you please post a list? There isn't anything like that. Mer has patterns, and we have a @Mer Core pattern which provides a minimal system that can be booted if you have a kernel and a boot loader. What you need is to inspect the content of @Mer Core pattern. > I am considering purchasing an Improv board which has Mer > preinstalled. I need a full desktop linux distro. You need KDE packages I think, you should find them on OBS. > I was disappointed > reading that Mer is web based. I don't want to store my data in a > cloud vulnerable to nation state spying and crackers cracking. Mer is not about that. Your point doesn't really make sense because Mer is just a linux distribution. You can have anything installed on it including a WebKit/HTML5 view, a full desktop system, a webserver, etc... Just to be clear: Mer Project doesn't provide any web or cloud service at all. The only service which is provided is OBS that is used to build packages. > At the very least, is a plain text editor and a PDF viewer > preinstalled? You should ask this question to Active guys, we cannot answer about this because Mer is not about this. Anyway probably you are looking for something which is based on Mer. Regards, Davide Bettio. -- Davide Bettio CTO at Ispirata Srl Ispirata - Rise to Excellence -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web
