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2012-11-13 , 23:34
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Originally Posted by eliasps View Post
I also installed some useful command-line tools and debian related software.
Also, there are a lot of cool stuff in the extras-testing and extras-devel repositories.
By the way, if anyone can tell me how to make the "pipe" symbol ( | ) on N900 I would be very thankful!

What I'm currently trying to figure out is the differences between the available kernels and boot loaders.
I now use the one provided by the community (2.6.28.10-cssu).
I had a problem on boot with U-Boot so I won't use it for now.

Everything very good so far!
Pipe is Blue Shift and Ctrl together (Sym), then top right corner of screen.

Be careful installing things from devel and ubuntu things.
One main problem with the N900 filesystem is limited rootfs. If you fill root you will cause problems that will end up with a reflash.

Packages promoted to Stable and Testing should be "Optified" this means files are stored in /opt and symlinked if necessary.
Many things in devel are not optifed or stable so beware.

There are a few different non-stock kernels for N900 the most popular being "kernel-power".
If using "thumb" a non-stock kernel is required, so if you are on KP51r1> this is used or kernel-cssu is installed (which is based on KP)

The best benefit of KP is stable smartreflex which provides increased battery life.

If you are starting from dot, install backupmenu and backup a nice clean system with your kernel installed, you then have something to restore to if a devel application goes for the kill.
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