Guys, you are on to something here. This is a critical step if you want to make maemo community to really grow. I was like Maverick - got interested in developing for maemo again because of N900. Not being a linux user it took me a while to get the development environment up and there are still some rough ground to cover. So making an easy image with integrated IDE (with qt support) will be a huge deal for the rest of the world.

For Maverick: I am using Win7 64bit and was able to get the diablo sdk image working (thanks for the image) and esbox seemed quite nice for C.

My problems started when I wanted to setup Fremantle SDK. I wasn't able to install it - I guess the problem was old Scratchbox version? Does someone know or can point to some help on how to have them both working side by side?

Then what I really wanted to try was Qt development for Maemo. I didn't find anything involving IDE's supporting this. Now I finally have some sort of solution: Qt creator and then scp the files to scratchbox in order to test and compile the app from the command line. Is there a better way or are the tools just not ready yet?

Having preordered N900 I am finally excited to join the maemo community and contribute wherever I can, I just have to figure out the tools and practices. And they are not simple for someone who haven't done linux development or open source for that matter.

So a big thank you to all that are trying to make things in this front easier and more accessible to us stuck in the Windows world!