Re: What OS will you pair with your n900?
 

Well, pim-sync works with what other programs besides outlook. you say you doubt theres any issues with windows xp/vista/7, what about linux and OSX.

Mainly all i will be doing is sharing files amongst my desktop (win 7) my phone (n900 maemo), and the netbook (dunno yet). and syncing contacts between my phone and the netbook, and maybe calender etc.

I also want to share SNES roms between all 3, so that i dont have different saved games on each computer.

Re: What OS will you pair with your n900?
 

With a 160 GB hard drive, how would you partition it out for Windows 7 / Linux.

Re: What OS will you pair with your n900?
 

Have you ever given gretl a try? It did everything I needed Stata for. I haven't used SPSS but I understand Stata & SPSS are similar.

I'll be primarily using Arch Linux. I used to stick to Debian based distros, and was a fan of Sidux on the desktop. I still use Debian for my home file / backup server so I guess I might use the n900 with Debian for backup.

Re: What OS will you pair with your n900?
 

Ive used Arch Linux, it seems alot of customization is needed for it. How much less customization is needed for debian?

Re: What OS will you pair with your n900?
 

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll give it a try. I did try GNU PSPP for a while but it wouldn't work with the SPSS files I got from SPSS 17 (and well what's the point of reduplicating my efforts when I'm using SPSS at school).

Well Linux doesn't require that much space to run the operating system on. So it really depends on how many applications you plan on using.

I usually give / around 20 GBs and it's currently around 15 GBs used (mostly because I have alot of n800 back up image files on it since I use to do them monthly). I usually do a 2-3 GB swap and the rest is Windows. Since Linux can usually read and write to NTFS I just keep all my media files on there so if I'm ever in Windows I can still access them.

So regarding your question I'd say maybe 10-15 GBs just for Linux (you could probably do slightly less if you wanted). If you want to put /home on a seperate partition (I don't bother since as I said I keep most of my media and document files on an NTFS partition) then maybe around 5 GBs for /home and the rest in / for the OS and applications. The rest could go to Windows 7. I think that's how I have my laptop currently setup (came with 160 GBs though really around 140-150 if you take away the part that's used for a Vista recovery partition).

Re: What OS will you pair with your n900?
 

Debian will install X, desktop environment etc. for you if you want, so you can have a working environment straight away. Debian also has far more packages in the repositories.

But if you do want to customise I found it simpler (not necessarily easier) to start from scratch the way you do in Arch, of course the same can be done with Debian by just installing core stuff. The biggest advantage of Arch in my opinion is that it is set up around a rolling release model, while Debian with Sid just doesn't feel quite right to me. Where you don't want a rolling release, like a server, Debian makes a lot more sense than Arch though.

Re: What OS will you pair with your n900?
 

Err, that's talking about the RC (granted it still sucks). But I did beta-test Windows 7 and liked it more than Vista, and given the choice between the two of them I rather have Win 7 on my laptop than Vista.

Though either way I'm still spending 99% of my time in Ubuntu.

Re: What OS will you pair with your n900?
 

there is testing between sid and stable, thats not as unstable as sid but not worn out like stable.

I bought the nc10 about 3 weeks after release and found myself in configurating, building kernels, patching and reading the ground base basics of linux to get everything running, now you download a linuxMint onto a pendrive and get a full blown linux which is close to up to date

Re: What OS will you pair with your n900?
 

Well, since the E61 I owned years ago I was under the impression that you don't really need a host os. I download, browse and install everything directly on the phone.

I haven't connected the n800 to the pc ever since I flashed the last non NSU diablo.

Re: What OS will you pair with your n900?
 

That may be the case for everything except sharing Emulator Roms and other save files across multiple computers using the N900.