Maemo Select is well done and impressive in many ways except for the fact that there are only two pages.

The Maemo garage is easy if you are used to SourceForge. If, OTOH, you are used to other app stores, you will be intimidated, frustrated, and lost in short order. Even as an advanced open source user, I have no idea if I've gotten to all the projects that I am interested in. For example, if I go to Project Cloud and select Tablet OS Version, it returns the following options: All OS, OS2006, OS2007, Web Based Software. There are 184 OS2008 projects that won't show up under any of those categories and no Maemo 5 projects show up (which I assume is incorrect).

Also here is the description of latest "news" (it should really say release) right now:

mafw-lastfm 0.0.1
Claudio Saavedra - 2009-10-05 11:16 - mafw-lastfm
mafw-lastfm is a last.fm scrobbler for maemo devices using the Media Application Framework, like the N900. This is its the initial release. It basically works: it sets your playing-now status and it scrobbles.

That's not the most new user friendly description in the world (and I don't mean to pick on this project - I've used last.fm and I understand what he's talking about - the million new N900 users may not be as knowledgeable). Furthermore, while I recognize that "it basically works" combined with "0.0.1" means it's an alpha release not too far removed from the first clean compile, Joe Average may not.