Not to get into a distribution argument... i'm quite happy with maemo for what it is... and equally as glad that it's not Ubuntu... and that Nokia has generally done a great job with the IT's for what they are.

I had a sharp zaurus SL-5500 for a while, ran the stock ROM as well as a couple of OpenZaurus variants with QPE and GPE, and I appreciate when mobile devices don't try too hard to become a full-blown desktop.

I probably enjoy telling people that my n810 really doesn't suck... as I have seen some Nseries phones running Symbian that do suck quite a bit... and I love to tell people that the n810 doesn't run Symbian, and that I really am pleasantly surprised and happy with the n810.

Just fyi... i'm a Unix administrator by trade... time split between ~ 90% Solaris, 8% BSD, and 2% Linux, and I love Linux to death on my personal machines, but I've never been a fan of the consumer market (RedHat/Fedora, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian/Ubuntu, etc...). I prefer to run Slackware for my own sanity, without a bunch of 'conveniences' or 'utilities' that I really don't need to manage... or bog down my machines.