Pardon my ignorance, but it's basically Easy Debian with Bodhi instead of Debian, right?

So what's the point of this? If you prefer Bodhi over Debian - ok.
But after reading your "Arch on the HP Touchpad" thread [1] I kind of expected/hoped to see Bodhi running natively on the N900.

[1] http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=80650