I just reflashed back to 2007OS due to instability from the 2008OS. There are a few items I miss from the 2008OS, specifically the file manager and BT Keyboard. 2008OS was able to natively see my shared folders on my laptop and the BT Keyboard was able to wakeup and connect with my igo keyboard- these features are not available in 2007.

Not being very well versed in Linux, I'm thinking that the file that is used to flash the unit is similar to an .iso file. I tried to open it in PowerISO but got an error message. That may be due to trying to load an ext2 based filesystem onto a program expecting Fat32 or NTFS. (just a guess on my part)

My question is- assuming I'm on the right path, and it is possible to edit one of these bin files and then flash the N800 would it be possible to "pull out" say the file manager and BT Keyboard apps and plug them into the 2007OS bin? Ignoring for now lib conflicts and other dependency issues.

Would setting up the scratchbox SDK on a linux partition and editing what I need then rolling it back up into a bin be possible?

Why does the unit need to be totally erased when updating the OS anyway? I thought with linux based operating systems that apt-get would be able to update just about any file. Could there theoretically be a way to just pick and choose areas to update?