Hi,

last year I tried to convince people to install debian on N800. But now the situation is much better, as lenny / armel is becoming official.

I wrote down some notes how I installed lenny / armel on N800 using vncviewer to get the graphical interface. Especially on N800 this has the advantage to have the maemo on screen keyboard availible.

I used debootstrap to install lenny, which is quite a clean way. Of cause it takes some time (for complete gnome environment some hours)
But you get a lot of applications, which probably nobody will port to maemo. I use kstars, octave, maxima (broken at the moment on armel, but I hope it will be fixed soon), and what you need. The armel port statistics say, that more than 95% of the i386 applications of debian work.

My aim is to get a one click installer for debian / lenny onto diablo distribution! The only hand made should be formating the sd card with some unix file system.

Who likes to take part?

Here is my howto: http://www.physik.de/770

Detlef