maacruz's summary is pretty discouraging on the nokia commercial/proprietary front. But that is pretty much par for the course whenever commercial/proprietary interests are involved.

Used n8x0's are very inexpensive and abundant on ebay. I picked up 3 averaging less than $60 each including shipping. All you can get at that price point is a no-name audio/video media player. Which is no comparison to what can be done with an n8x0.

I'll do what can to make dead easy to automate everything possible to take a used n8x0 and bring it up to date: reflash n8x0, add the CSSU repository, and install a CSSU update including DT.

I'm heading off on a family vacation to Alaska in a about a week. My goal between now and then is to get all my n800's completely updated and decked out for the trip with movies, music, games, and audio books.

I probably won't get a CSSU update packaged between now and then. But I'll wade through the Diablo Turbo thread, write up a summary, and try to start digging into CSSU packaging. I'll probably be asking a lot of questions. Is there an #irc channel folks hang out on?

Following that, I'll probably look at getting flash and java to work in the Opera mobile browser. It has been my experience that the Opera folks have the longest term support for old devices and operating systems. So, I'm guessing the likelihood that someone in the Opera developer community will help out is probably better than the treatment I would receive elsewhere. And any effort expended on my part on improving Opera support will probably give a longer and better return on the sweat equity investment.

Well that is a positive note :-)

If the device drivers are in the mainline kernel and are functional... That's the best possible long term scenario. Also encouraging that OpenWrt boots its own kernel.

At least that gives the possibility of ditching maemo and putting something else on it.

So the page I referenced appears to be out of date... Are you aware of changes with any of the other devices which are critical and weren't supported in the mainline kernel?