From what I'm seeing, our 770 is getting a better and faster device on every software upgrade.
From a point of view, to have many distributions to choose from means more freedom, but on the other side we have to think that the 770 is for the moment a unique toy with unique carachteristics. It means IMHO that we really need only one distribution at this time of 770 life in order to improve its stability and performance overall. Following the MaemoDev and User lists is nice to found gems such as two days ago a bug in hildon-window.c
As far as I understood, we had the 'big drama' of going to OS2006 for speed reasons, and I think it has been weel worth the effort to re-install everything.
The device is getting every day more stable, faster and smoother, with many new apps available. Mine is a total laptop replacement for my needs:
- Xterm because you will simply need it
- python + winzig for pim apps (it doesn't allow syncro with web based progs but it's python, it means easibly hackable and - sirs - this prog is FAST LIKE HELL)
- grisbi for account management
- unison for an almost instant synchronization with my home PCs
- horizon for on-the-fly sketches (sometimes it slows down without apparent reasons, perhaps some memory leaks somewhere?)
- Mplayer & Canola for multimedia
- Gnumeric (a must have, it's incredible such an horse power in a so little space!) - I have a customized file that let me track down everything I need for my daily job while travelling: it transformed my working drama of getting back home after 5-6 days of travel and to spend at least half a day to work everything out in a 5 minutes op, together with unison
- FBReader to read books on the fly
- And now Navicore for GPS needings, together with MaemoMapper (whose simplicity and speed are inarrivable for other progs, I think), but Navicore is a real navigation program with a very rapid track recalculation (very good feature well implemented!)

...all these with a fragmentation in the OS would not have been possible, IMHO. Many forces spreaded into too many different projects leading... where? Look at Ubuntu: it's getting every day more and more support and success, thanks mostly to their goals and a clear vision about where to go. What we really need is an optimization of every component of the platform, in order to have a well suited OS on the next product. It's a way of working that I like a lot, also perhaps not the best in a technological and radically day-changing world. But it's the best way not to waste and throw any resource.

Only feature I'm missing now is... well, just a little bit more of HP! Integrated RSS feed and browser suffer from this, and a good mail client well integrated with Maemo could be definitive. We miss a recent version of Flash, true, but I disabled Flash by default on my home PCs so you can have the idea of what I think about Flash apps and intros... When I am on a slow GPRS connection, big images and flash are totally unusuless, though I can respect other's people needings.
With next (?) hardware upgrade (no, I'm not interested in 870 because of webcam, but if it has more HP - processor and than 770 and costs not too much I can consider it) i think I will have my 'perfect toy' to carry around, but for the moment I am really satisfied with my 770. Let's say 9/10, the best tech gadget I bought in last 4 years.

The spirit on the lists seems really very open and collaborative, if Maemo will go on this way I hope it will gets the success such a project deserves.

Remember that one of the factors that gave Windows (tm) the success it has is the fact that it is the only and one, machines changes but Windows remains.

Last, once upon I was a programmer, now after more than 10 years I started coding again in my free time thanx to N770. This is perhaps one of the reasons that makes me a 770 FanBoy
Uh, and sorry for my poor english, I hope not to have misunderstood anything

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