Not really. My comment was a qualifier. I am impressed that Stellarium ran at all. My Netbook runs it OK under ubuntu - but with XP it is hopeless. My Compaq celeron runs it OK, and it onlt 'flies' on W7 on a dual-core with 4GB RAM. So, yes, that it can get up and running at all is impressive - to me. Stars and planets move relatively slowly, and telescopes take a while to set up, so speed is not the essence. However, I doubt I'll be trying to see if I can load the telescope control software into Stellarium on the n900, as it would be unrealistic to expect all of that to work. But, it would make like much simpler if I could control my scope from the n900 than have to connect it to a laptop and then connect an IR-paddle to the laptop via a usb dongle to control it with. It would eliminate one set of wires and usb connections.

Iceweasel takes a bit to load - but I'd expect a PC application written for an appx standard of 1.6 cpu + 2GB RAM to struggle a bit on a 0.6 cpu + 1/4GB (+3/4GB swap) RAM. to take its time. It doesn't mean it is crap, although I agree that running Stellarium is just for interest; but Iceweasel, Icedove, Open Office word, spreadhseet and presentation manager are quite handy things to have access to if you need them.

I'm sure that taking an n900 out of your pocket wherever you are, & firing up the Debian application you want to use, is quicker than finding somewhere to get out your laptop/netbook, boot it up, then open up the application you want. It might not be as quick as loading a cut-down browser, or word processor, or e-mail client on some smartphone - but hey - if I'm in a hurry I have those in Maemo as well...

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Mish.