HAM is open source? Or are HAM and Hildon Application Manager different things? (I figured it was, and that HAM is an abbrev. for Hildon Application Manager. The folders with those respective names having relevant-to-each-other files in them suggests the same thing, but I suppose they could be linked pieces of software.) Anyway, I could have sworn I read it said on here that the App manager was closed. Anyway, thanks for setting me straight. Actually, is there a comprehensive list of closed blobs in Maemo 5? (I did know about the Media Player, though. Should've just used that as an example.)

Why does it have to run in Linux only? Is there no C compiler that can make N900-specific debs for Windows? Or is it the ARM architecture that's the issue? Combination of both? (Oh, wait, "you need the sdk" - is that this scratchbox I keep seeing mentioned? Can I safely assume that's the ONLY SDK that can compile for the N900?)

I have a virtual machine with Debian installed (Lenny, I think), but I haven't even started to get off the ground using that. Linux is amazingly less intuitive than I expected when your starting point is the N900. I partly blame the Virtual Machine, because I can't figure out how to resize the screen to fit into my monitor, which means that either I run the Virtual Machine in windowed mode and have to mouse out of it, scroll down using the little bar to get to the bottom of the screen and vice-versa, or if I full-screen it I just can't reach the bottom of the screen. Which isn't fully a problem either, except I have a mouse bug too where I regularly end up stuck and unable to reach the edges of the screen. I also did a very minimalistic install because I didn't want to burn a bunch of install CDs... So over all I just kinda got lazy a few weeks ago, and stopped fiddling for lack of time, and because the N900 I actually get.

But I'll look into it. I have a pre-set VM image of debian as well that I need to try, see if that is slightly friendlier to me. Worse case scenario I'll say screw it and let the user-friendliness of Ubuntu take me into it's sweet embrace.