Re: Maemo Community blows me away
 

• MacBook Pro with Mac OS/X and Debian Linux
• Work desktop running Debian Linux
• Home PC running Ubuntu Linux
• Old laptop running Debian Linux
• Three embedded ARM computers (work projects) running various Linuxes.

So the answer is "yes".

Re: Maemo Community blows me away
 

khrm i would like to remind you about wiki. take a look at http://wiki.maemo.org/Category:Beginners
I am very pissed off if the people who have been working hard with wiki aren't noticed here too.

for example:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_basics

http://wiki.maemo.org/New_users

I thought that it would take forever (next year maybe?) to get to this point after I got the idea from revdkathys beginner -point of view that we need a wiki section for total noobs and started drumming for it.

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Agreed , well done to the ossipena and team on pulling this into shape ,bada BIING bada BOOM you are the man ossipena

Mike C

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I'm only the man that got the thing started, the state now was accomplished together. so thanks to everyone who has done something for the wiki pages for beginners.

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I'm curious why you're curious.

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Yes, at least for me.

Re: Maemo Community blows me away
 

ossipena, no reason to be pissed off-- I don't think the OP really meant to slight anyone, he just provided examples.

But anyway, I've expressed my appreciation before for the wiki crew and trust me, I'm not the only one feeling it!

Re: Maemo Community blows me away
 

I came to Maemo pretty recently because it's a (more or less) open free software system, specifically because of the advantages and community that that enables. I'm very pleased that the community around the OS is this good and active but it's what I was looking for, so I'm not surprised by it. However, while I'm sure I'm not alone in that, it strikes me that other people may be here for different reasons and from different backgrounds, and that this might be their first experience of what free software communities tend to be like.

Basically though, I'm just curious.

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Yes. I run Debian on my own systems. The tools I need I simply recompile and install in the same way (using the same install tools) as with my other computers. (These are mostly stuff that doesn't need graphical UI porting. Because that's really the only difference between my other boxes and my current N800).

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Don't forget the crazy way fiferboy coded up a handful of desktop widgets at our request. I've got a great dataplan monitor, IP address display, and photo frame widget because of his great work... And joshua.maverick did the icons and graphics... very cool...

This community is awesome. Ok, it will be more awesome when we see the last post in the last "Has your N900 shipped yet" thread. I don't mind newbie questions, but endless threads full of bogus information from online sales reps... argh...

Yes, I have Ubuntu on most of my machines at home. As someone who seems to always be needing help, I can say with some authority that the Ubuntu forums aren't nearly as helpful as the Maemo ones.