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2010-03-19 , 01:05
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thanks nbc, in term of linux distribution, i was thinking about fedora, however someone told me it is unstable, what is your suggestion fedora or ubuntu?
 
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2010-03-19 , 01:09
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You really don't care. The two are stable enough (if you don't take the development one). It's more a matter of feeling and guts at least for desktop usage.

And you can always install the two and try them. And buy some good linux books.
 
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2010-03-19 , 01:11
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thanks nbc, in suse, there are lots of things a user can't do without "root" to "protect" the system, if a user messed up, just delete that "user". I wonder if this applies to X term on N900, e.g if you are not "root", you can't do anything to harm/mess up the OS, and when you have gained "root", then a single command can kill n900 off???
 
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2010-03-19 , 01:15
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Yes, it's hard to broke the system without root on desktop distrib. As far as I've looked, the security seems not bad at all on n900 but I'm not sure the phone will work well if you delete all the files in /home/user so even without root, be careful when playing with terminal.
 

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2010-03-19 , 07:05
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thanks nbc, in term of linux distribution, i was thinking about fedora, however someone told me it is unstable, what is your suggestion fedora or ubuntu?
For even remote similarity with maemo get Ubuntu, both are "Debian based" and in many things follow "the Debian way".

I could start a rant about the annoying little differences between various distros (especially Debian based vs Redhat based [for example Ubuntu vs Fedora]) that makes life slightly difficult when you're mostly using/administering one but still have to regularly visit the other too.
 

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2010-03-21 , 21:41
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guys, where is "/home/user" folder? I can only see MyDocs folder in X Term, any ideas???
 
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2010-03-21 , 21:57
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guys, where is "/home/user" folder? I can only see MyDocs folder in X Term, any ideas???
if you can see MyDocs via "ls" then you are in /home/user ^^
 

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2010-03-21 , 22:03
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b666m, thanks for your reply. been reading some of your useful replies to others' posts. Quick question for you, i have a UK n900(unbranded), i wonder if there is any benefits to flash the device(it is quite new, no dev/testing app installed)???

Many thanks
 
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2010-03-21 , 22:07
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guys, where is "/home/user" folder? I can only see MyDocs folder in X Term, any ideas???
it's one level up. just do
Code:
cd ..
MyDocs is a directory in /home/user/ that is mapped to N900 in the GUI.
 

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b666m, thanks for your reply. been reading some of your useful replies to others' posts. Quick question for you, i have a UK n900(unbranded), i wonder if there is any benefits to flash the device(it is quite new, no dev/testing app installed)???
i never flashed my device since i got it mid of december.
it's still in a very good shape and fast.

so in my opinion you only have to flash your device if you're noticing any problems ("speed" problems, crashing apps and so on)
 

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