Thanks to you and everyone else who responded.

I have no gripe with Maemo. I think it's a spectacular OS. However, I'm disappointed with the number of applications I can use with it.

Nokia has come up with a dynamite device (n810), a truly spectacular product, but has left it in the lurch. At some point we'll hear something about "disappointing sales," which will be 100% attributable to not having an office suite (or at least a word processor) and other essentials.

My n810 is not a gizmo, it's not a toy, and it's not a PDA. it's a serious computer. Nokia should get serious about it and pay some of you brilliant people to write some serious software.

Enough of my ranting: A general-purpose Linux OS would perhaps enable me to use Open Office and some of my chess database and playing programs. If this were to happen I'd never be without my n810.

Angelo