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2009-11-04
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2009-11-04
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2009-11-04
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2009-11-05
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2009-11-05
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My plan is to do a similar trick on the N900 that I did on the N8x0 with LXDE; start a nested X-Server (Xephyr) and then start LXDE (or something) in the secondary X-Server. The problems I have encountered so far are:
- No hardware key for getting the dashboard (task switcher), so no way to switch out of the secondary environment.
- Standard desktop environments look tiny and are difficult to use even with the stylus on the N900.
- Some keyboard remapping needed, but there seems to be some difficulty remapping the keyboard on the N900 (ie keys all go dead).
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2009-11-05
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2009-11-05
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No hardware key for getting the dashboard (task switcher), so no way to switch out of the secondary environment.
Standard desktop environments look tiny and are difficult to use even with the stylus on the N900.
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2009-11-05
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That would be for the ARM architecture. Debian supports ARM. You can browse packages.debian.org and see what packages they have (there's more than 20 thousand of them, I hear) and if these packages are available for the ARM arcitecture.
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2009-11-05
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I realize this may not be a very answerable question, but I'm wondering, does anyone have a sense of how much developer interest there is in porting a lot of the Debian packages to Maemo?
I'm fooling around with other options to try to get things working better, but it is slow going and there aren't many helpers yet, since the device isn't on sale.
So yes, you can run Debian / Ubuntu apps on the N900. But they are ugly and unstable under the N900's GUI.
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