Woah, here's a great discovery:

Pimlico seems to load faster in the Easy Debian chroot than in Hildon. No explanation here... could just be my imagination, but it feels distinctly faster.

Furthermore, the EDS stuff remains consistent between the two environments. My calendar from Hildon's Pimlico is still accessible to Debian's, although only the first Local calendar - none of the others.

Another discovery: I can thus load Conduit and perform real syncing of my Evolution data, which means that Pimlico wins :P (For some reason the Maemo port of Conduit can't talk to Evolution yet).
One problem, though, is that Avahi isn't working for me. I set up Conduit with a network sync but _conduit._tcp from the N810 is not appearing my N810 on my other computer. Will do some poking. For now I could happily sync to an online file storage service.


Edit:
Okay, duh...
Thinking aloud now, but I just realized that avahi-daemon wasn't running on the tablet. (Anyone know of a nice, lightweight GUI to configure services on startup?)
Seems to hang, though. Too bad... may be because Ubuntu and Debian have slightly different versions. Or it may just be that Conduit 0.3.14 on the desktop is buggy :/


Now I almost want to run this chroot as my main environment, albeit with a tiny bit of the normal OS2008 environment underneath. It would be nice if we had something like XDM or GDM on startup with the tablet, because Deblet doesn't quite do it for me. (All that rebooting the tablet to get to another desktop environment is super wasteful considering that they all can run happily under the same kernel).