One shall be all over this like a tramp with a steakbake as soon as I finish a) work and b) this perverse N900 & Ubuntu-induced storkie.

Спасибо, int_ua!

In a few minutes I will push a new revision, if someone wants to start installing - wait a little.

I think I've just read more new words in a single post then on the whole forum
Edit: What is steakbake and storkie?)
You are welcome!
Actually my native language is Ukrainian and it will be Дякую in it, but I speak Russian too so it doesn't really matter

fbcat should do the trick.

Will do. Won't have time to start until late this evening anyway.

All part of the service! A steakbake is essentially a pastry filled with beef and gravy. Excellent hangover food - our version of vodka, lard and rye bread. A storkie is what happens to a gentleman of Scottish descent when they are *coughs* aroused. Possibly a case of too much information.

I worked with some great Ukranian folk daily so you think I'd be able to get a simple "thank you" correct. Thankfully their English is better than my Ukranian - even if they do struggle with the accent ; they are very nice about it.

Anyway, back to the task in hand ... Continued dispensation of Awesomeness onto Nokia's Swiss Army Knife.

Status report:

STATUS: Booted, ubuntu's first time wizard exited with "installer crashed".
N900 keyboard map failed to load, numbers not accessible
bluez failed to install (subprocess dpkg returned error - probably due to skipping dist-upgrade)
REVISION: 50, modified to write on pc's mmcblk0 (just added 'p' before ${PARTITION_NUMBER})
MICROSD: 8 Gb, class 10
BOOTLOADER: U-Boot (pali's)
Now it boots just with "run sdboot" no setenv needed
OPTIONS:
skipped dist-upgrade (time constraint)
selected_image_source: ubuntu-daily
selected_firmware_source: local

That's so cool.

How did you deal with the Ubuntu being compiled as Thumb-2 problem?

Cannot open file /lib/udev/keymaps/nokia-n900.map shows at boot time

and System program problem detected messages pop up all the time when in GUI

These are the only problems I have I think...

I'm becoming obsessed with this. After some reboots I lost network connection and the crashes continued, but the system had become fast enough for regular use. I copied /lib/udev/keymaps/nokia-n900-keys.map to nokia-n900.map and the error at boot time disappeared, but I still don't have numbers & symbols. Now trying again from the beginning with dist-upgrade

Holy... so you've got latest (experimental even) libc6/libglib et al? Which kernel are you using? I've been trying (I know, butcher approach) to substitute those in Fremantle, but 'FATAL: kernel too old' happens most of the time. Considering ubuntu got all (not 100% sure but it seems so) packages also for armel this would mean latest libs out of the box. Fast enough for regular use sounds very optimistic. Fingers crossed

I can see dist-upgrade updating libglib so I suppose they are the latest versions. I think the setup uses 2.6.35 but somewhere in the setup there are some instructions for how to use 3.2

After waiting tens of seconds just to dismiss a messagebox, opening the dash instantly felt awesome. It has some lag to load the icons but that is accepatble. It also takes a bit long to launch another app but once it's open it's pretty usable. Didn't try anything big like LibreOffice though. My goal is to be able to use inkscape fast enough.

Another minor problem is that it's really hard to xlick withoit initiating a drag so I end up pressing enter. Lastly, there is no right click. I loved on the other hand that lists are finger-scrollable albeit slow to it.