I'm one of those people ....
I am new to this forum, but it's the same here as anywhere: The "older" ones have never been newbies, were senior member from day one, that's the problem, whixh fills up too many posts in many threads.
But nevermind ...
I tried to download the new os2008 for n810, had the same problems as others, found a mirror, downloaded in 10 minutes (after two or three cancelled attempts to download from maemo.org before).
After that I wanted to install some applications. Had to download again. All repositories on maemo.org were / are unreachable. Why isn't it possible to download all the stuff to my pc and install it from there?
OS2008 is completely intransparent for a non-nokia-user. In linux, in palm, even in windows there's a comprehensible structure, in os2008 it's only a black box.
I think I have to get out my little knowledge about using terminals ...