What OS will you pair with your n900?
 

I have a netbook, I have been swapping OSes left and right on it for a long time now. I have preordered the n900 already, and am looking forward to holding it in my hands soon. I am wondering what OS/Distribution of the OS) you would pair on a netbook with your n900. Opinion is wanted and welcome, thanks

(The netbook is a Samsung NC10)

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what do you mean by what os?

windows/mac/ovi sync/pc suite?

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Windows vs OSX vs Linux vs BSD etc. OS as in Operating System, for the non n900 device

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Windows 7.
Then again, I've never changed the OS on my computer based on what phone I'm using.

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whatever it is, you can always set up a VM or dual boot with a different OS to sync the N900 to...
anyway, I really hope there won't be too many issues to sync the phone with whatever OS...

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I got one two, I'm running debian squeeze and linux mint on it (the mint just sometimes for testing, its not installed to hdd its on a pendrive, more backup to be quick and dont damage my primary system), after all it works out of the box apart of turning off wifi but thats more a general problem.
If I had to choose again I would install squeeze right away with ion3 as wdm! I guess you are more a windows guy so I would go for squeeze with gnome as wdm or some gui loaded wdm what ever you like. the mint showed some problems with eduroam authentication for wifi I never got working, BUT thats properly setting up itself and is realy fast. again working out of the box but no wifi off button. I didnt compare battery life between debian and mint but without hdd encryption I got my 6-7h out of the sammy with debian, at the time people were complaining about <4h battery within any linux (I dont know what they did but I installed laptop-tools and got the 6 hours)
for some programs you cant get working within linux and because I want to sell it some time and buy the next gen I left the windows partitions alive. but you can easily run a XP in a vbox.
for performance: I got everything working but 1080p movies (yes 720p is running smooth)
windows 7? well if you realy want to?! noone needs windows 7 yet and I guess you wont need it on a netbook some time soon.
stick with XP or get a fast lightweight linux
hope that helped.

my brother started his linux career with slackware (about a year ago... had him on the phone and on IRC quiet often), two friends with gentoo (4 years now, once in a while they call for support when they get stuck) so if you want it challenging try one of those :D you will get your sammy glow in the dark that fast it gets

BTW why is this in off-topic? you are asking for a OS to pair with your new N900...

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Its in off-topic as its not really on topic imho.
maybe it is.

@ Silvermountain I am not changing my OS based on my phone, ive just never really found something that felt the best so I was looking for suggestions

@ chemist I did have alot of fun doing a minimal debian sid/squeeze install and might go back to that. I agree with you on the <4 hs. Ive never gotten <4h's unless you have max brightness while you are watching some movie or something. at 30-40% brightness i get 5-6 hours untweaked in linux usually. (30% brightness is fine for inside non bright areas)

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yeah the 40% does for me and the 100% burns eyes!

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that was obvious, but what you wanted to connect it with was not.


i doubt there will be any issues with window (xp/vista/7)

i just hope that they fix the mapping on the pim-sync because on the e90's, when you sync with outlook, it puts the zip code before the city and you have to go into outlook to manually arrange them correctly, otherwise they will not print labels correctly. (this only happens if you add the contract on the handset and then sync)

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Let's see..

I have Ubuntu and Windows XP on my desktop. I also have Windows XP running inside Ubuntu (so I can just stay in Ubuntu without switching to XP for SPSS).

For my laptop I have Ubuntu and Windows Vista. I'm going be getting that $30 student upgrade to Windows 7 so it will be Ubuntu and Windows 7.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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

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Wii7 ofcourse

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if you want to try KDE 4.3, look at sidux (Debian) or Chakra (Arch).

My personal fav on my laptop is openSUSE 11.2 KDE. because i'm not into a rolling release atm.

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Hmm.. maybe one day I will try Arch, have gotten way too comfortable with Gentoo in all those years.

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I've been stuck with Gentoo too lol

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I will be running it with kubuntu karmic.

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My N900 pairing works perfectly with openSUSE 11.2 using KDE3 Bluetooth device manager and NOT the KDE4 !

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I'll most likely be running mine with Win7 and probably Ubuntu as and when I need it.