One holdup for making more applications available is that it takes forever for developers to get programs compiled on the Maemo servers. Things that should take minutes take hour+. This really impedes the workflow for developers, so projects that should be done in an afternoon take a week instead...

A big cause of this is the actual servers building the applications (and hosting things like "brainstorm") are overloaded and sloooooow.

Nokia knows this, and supposedly was getting set up with a new ISP--in October. Will this happen before Christmas? Spring/Fall? 2012?

Let Nokia know you would like to see things sped up... As more users start using the N900, things are just going to slow down *more* if they don't get on the ball with this.

You can vote for this bug as one way to let them know.
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5818
https://bugs.maemo.org/votes.cgi?act...5818#vote_5818

A bit more info here:
http://wiki.maemo.org/ISP_Move

Thanks!

-Jeff
http://wiki.maemo.org/User:Jebba