...but I have no experience in this, much less any in Debian/Linux. Although having used the terminal on OS 2008 I'm getting around a bit.

So, from what I gathered in some posts do I need "Scratchbox", or the SDK? I'm on XP Home SP3. I'm assuming this is as simple as a few commands, waiting a bit, toss it on the N800 and hopefully it runs.

Basically, I wanna spend a few hours today looking for apps outside of Maemo.org - the only one I can think of off hand would be some kind of virtual guitar you could pick or strum, or a better piano than PyAno, or a drum machine. Anything beyond that... I dunno.

Then I guess I'll have to keep in mind any libraries that are required (which brings to mind, once I tried apt-get install nameoflib [can't remember the name] and it was not found -- are there cases where you have to specify a specific repository? Where does apt-get install pull from on OS 2008 anyway?)