Another proud owner of N900 in Kuching, Sarawak. Chose N900 because of its Maemo is a close descendent of Debian. I have been using Debian on my desktops and notebook for years.

Of a couple of mobile gadgets (PDAs, smartphones and even camera), I come to conclude that the major area they failed badly, I really mean it badly! is the choice of filesystem - the infamous M$ FAT. It's most prone to corruption! My devices need to be reformatted at least once a year to prevent filesystem corruption and lose its content! Eg. my Palm 'ancient' Tungsten T3 has lost its data on memory card for no obvious reason. Even you can see the files are there, but they all are of zero byte! My Nokia Ngage QD also uses FAT in its internal and memory cards. The consequence - lost data. And now i'm so fed up with redoing whatever I have done with it, i'll just leave it in the minimal state with none of my data saved in there - period.

So 1 of my key targets with my new (relatively) n900 is to get rid of the vulnerable FAT from it. So far I've managed to format my Kingston 16GB class 10 microSD with ext3 and it runs most beautifully (instructions can be found in maemo website). Next step is repartitioning and charge filesystem of internal memory (the eMMC) to something more resilient like the ext3 or nilfs2.

Hope you all have a pleasant user experience with n900. Running linux/open-source platform provides us plenty of learning experience - if you do care about learning new stuff.

Cheers,
Wilson