ok so it is real debian just with a few tweaks to be run off of the kernel of the maemo operating system. and it is using the official repos that have the software compiled to arm which is not specific to this device. got that (I hope)...

I just looked at the debian site and see that sid is unstable (he did kill his girlfriend right) and that lenny is the current stable version. when I said updates I meant like in ubuntu when I type sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade, to upgrade my packages, I did not mean trying to go from a stable branch of debian to an unstable branch...so if I can just sail along in stable that would be fine. I also would expect that some stuff would be horribly slow to install and basically useless due to screen size and processing power. what I don't get is why if easy debian is really debian for arm, why some packages just would not work at all regardless of their install time or feasibility of real world use.

also....question, does then easy debian follow the path of the debian stable releases? I see something called squeeze will be out this year from the debian site. would the n900 have a option to be upgraded from the easy debian apt-get command line to a new easy debian squeeze? or would that entail a fresh install.

again thats so much for working through with this newbie on this...