Thread: My First N900
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2011-12-31 , 22:41
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Originally Posted by Old Abe View Post
Am I going to need to flash this thing to get it to do what I want? Meaning, is it going to fight me for root or bar me from readily accessing system resources and drivers?
I've had my N900 for a year now, and haven't yet found the need to flash it even once. I've been using the convenient "rootsh" package to perform root actions; information about this package (and other issues involving root) can be found in the root access wiki page.

I've seen no real need to play with any of the modified kernels yet, nor have I found any desire to mess with the CSSU as yet. The stock Maemo environment is a full fledged, fully open Linux distribution; you can do plenty without changing a thing!

Also, what can't I do that I could do on a typical Linux system? I'm really in the dark with this platform.
This... is actually a hard question to answer. Of course, the hardware limits you to some extent -- you've got to live within the means of the memory and processing power of the phone. But, so far as I've been able to tell, you can run pretty much whatever you want on the machine. (Of course, you have to compile it for the ARM architecture...)