I have a netbook, I have been swapping OSes left and right on it for a long time now. I have preordered the n900 already, and am looking forward to holding it in my hands soon. I am wondering what OS/Distribution of the OS) you would pair on a netbook with your n900. Opinion is wanted and welcome, thanks

(The netbook is a Samsung NC10)

what do you mean by what os?

windows/mac/ovi sync/pc suite?

Windows vs OSX vs Linux vs BSD etc. OS as in Operating System, for the non n900 device

Windows 7.
Then again, I've never changed the OS on my computer based on what phone I'm using.

whatever it is, you can always set up a VM or dual boot with a different OS to sync the N900 to...
anyway, I really hope there won't be too many issues to sync the phone with whatever OS...

I got one two, I'm running debian squeeze and linux mint on it (the mint just sometimes for testing, its not installed to hdd its on a pendrive, more backup to be quick and dont damage my primary system), after all it works out of the box apart of turning off wifi but thats more a general problem.
If I had to choose again I would install squeeze right away with ion3 as wdm! I guess you are more a windows guy so I would go for squeeze with gnome as wdm or some gui loaded wdm what ever you like. the mint showed some problems with eduroam authentication for wifi I never got working, BUT thats properly setting up itself and is realy fast. again working out of the box but no wifi off button. I didnt compare battery life between debian and mint but without hdd encryption I got my 6-7h out of the sammy with debian, at the time people were complaining about <4h battery within any linux (I dont know what they did but I installed laptop-tools and got the 6 hours)
for some programs you cant get working within linux and because I want to sell it some time and buy the next gen I left the windows partitions alive. but you can easily run a XP in a vbox.
for performance: I got everything working but 1080p movies (yes 720p is running smooth)
windows 7? well if you realy want to?! noone needs windows 7 yet and I guess you wont need it on a netbook some time soon.
stick with XP or get a fast lightweight linux
hope that helped.

my brother started his linux career with slackware (about a year ago... had him on the phone and on IRC quiet often), two friends with gentoo (4 years now, once in a while they call for support when they get stuck) so if you want it challenging try one of those you will get your sammy glow in the dark that fast it gets

BTW why is this in off-topic? you are asking for a OS to pair with your new N900...

Its in off-topic as its not really on topic imho.
maybe it is.

@ Silvermountain I am not changing my OS based on my phone, ive just never really found something that felt the best so I was looking for suggestions

@ chemist I did have alot of fun doing a minimal debian sid/squeeze install and might go back to that. I agree with you on the <4 hs. Ive never gotten <4h's unless you have max brightness while you are watching some movie or something. at 30-40% brightness i get 5-6 hours untweaked in linux usually. (30% brightness is fine for inside non bright areas)

yeah the 40% does for me and the 100% burns eyes!

that was obvious, but what you wanted to connect it with was not.


i doubt there will be any issues with window (xp/vista/7)

i just hope that they fix the mapping on the pim-sync because on the e90's, when you sync with outlook, it puts the zip code before the city and you have to go into outlook to manually arrange them correctly, otherwise they will not print labels correctly. (this only happens if you add the contract on the handset and then sync)

Let's see..

I have Ubuntu and Windows XP on my desktop. I also have Windows XP running inside Ubuntu (so I can just stay in Ubuntu without switching to XP for SPSS).

For my laptop I have Ubuntu and Windows Vista. I'm going be getting that $30 student upgrade to Windows 7 so it will be Ubuntu and Windows 7.