qole - I'm really glad these are sorted - I hit them simultaneously after a re-flash following one of those lovely continuous reboot loops . I did manage to sort the lack of bzip2, but I couldn't fathom the other .

I know it's very basic, but I wonder if you think it would be worth saying for newbies that the maemo Extras catalogue needs to enabled in the Application Manager (it took me a while to get that originally)?

I am a newbie, who has been lurking around this thread for some time - and I'm finally taking the plunge and posting! I am a Linux virgin, and I also have very limited system-level knowledge of Windows (more on RISC-OS), so I'm on a steep learning curve. I hail from the days when the OS fitted into 4K and 16K of RAM were a looxury . However, I did do some early work with Sophie (fka Roger) Wilson, the co-inventor of the ARM, so I feel some sense of connection .

I am delighted with my N810 for web-browsing and e-mail, and my interest here is in being able to see (and edit) Office docs sent by e-mail. The work you have done, qole, has attracted justifiable plaudits, and I add my humble congrats and thanks .

I have a few points that I will post separately.