Does the backlight now fade to black when not in use? That would be cool and make me not reflash back to Maemo right away next time round.

What is the best LINUX distro for Android dev? I'm thinking of ditching Ubuntu and going with OpenSuSE, as I want up to date Mono and Novel favours SuSE on that front. I figured out the Maemo dev kit should install as it uses tar.gz on non debian. So that was the thing holding me back. Don't want to jump ship if I'm on the best platform already.