Hi. I've dug my N900 back out because I'm interested in running a Pi-Hole household ad-blocker on it, as per this thread.

Pi-hole is meant for a Raspberry Pi, but will work on vanilla Debian - I currently have it running on an old Asus EeePC 701 running textmode Debian.

Consequently, I need Debian running on the N900. Importantly, I don't care about Maemo at all - I'll do a MMC backup for nostalgia's sake, but I don't actually need the device to perform as a smartphone anymore, so I can wipe its contents completely and repartition from scratch. All I need is for the operating system to run and connect to my wi-fi, then I can control it via ssh and download what I need from the Debian repos and pi-hole.

I have some relatively vague memories about tinkering on the N900, but it's been several years since I've done anything on it and I don't really remember the technicalities. Is a step-by-step guide to install DebiaN900 available? I've checked the readme but it assumes knowledge I don't really have; specifically, is there any way to avoid cross-compilation, perhaps using precompiled kernels?

And thanks for the efforts, I wasn't expecting to see the most recent update to be yesterday!