A whole new device...
 

Wow! I have been reading through the forums since I got my N810 a month ago, but the amount of information here is amazing...

I just ran across the "Hacking the N810" site...I haven't made it all the way through it, but just his link to http://gronmayer.com/it, and the treasure trove of repositories there. Most of the stuff I have been wishing for since I had my NIT is in there, and a bunch of things that I hadn't even considered. I do have a few questions, if I might.

1. Are these repos safe? I saw several that had what looked like utf-8 names in their titles...

2. Some of the others say they are for Chinook (this is OS2007?) Will it work on my diablo install?

This is great. I have a list of apps that I want (or think I want), lots of security apps (aircrack, etc), a fwe games, flite, etc. I need to go through and see how much space I have and how many packages I want to get rid of. My next step will be to dual boot from the internal card and get KDE running on it. Is there a working KDE4 package for the NIT?

Thanks,
--vr

Re: A whole new device...
 

Be extra careful when using external repositories. You can easily fall into dependency hell. Chinook is OS2008 and mostly safe, but still rather use Diablo repos.

Re: A whole new device...
 

Thanks, Bundyo. I didn't exactly fall in to dependency hell, but something wierd happened. I plugged the NIT in before going to bed, and when I got up this morning, it was non-responsive. I rebooted, but mmc1 is not being detected, and when I open an app (osso-term, the browser), I never get a prompt/page. and when I shut down from the button, it chimes and goes to the white screen, but no further (had to pull the battery). I don't know, it feels like something driving the load level to ridiculous levels...Teach me to install clumps of apps at one time...before bed. :) Unless someone has a better idea, I guess I'll be reflashing today...

--vr

Re: A whole new device...
 

Unless you absolutely positively need something out of one of those repositories, stick to Extras.

Re: A whole new device...
 

I was actually looking for ntpd and xournal...Plus some of the security tools...

Re: A whole new device...
 

Xournal is in Extras and it's quite nice. :)

Now if only someone ported LaTeX...... ;)

Re: A whole new device...
 

Can't compile LaTeX, but can write it in pygtkeditor, with syntax highlighting.

Re: A whole new device...
 

Chinook is OS2007. Diablo is OS2008.

Re: A whole new device...
 

No, Chinook is OS2008.0, Diablo is OS2008.1 (or Maemo 4.0 and Maemo 4.1 if you prefer).

http://wiki.maemo.org/Codenames