I am under the impression that setting swappiness to a low value increases in a significant way the overall speed of debian stuff.
To test such issue, enter as root the following command: (this will change the parameter until the next reboot).
For a persistent change, you have to edit /etc/sysctl.conf .

EDIT. after more precise experiments, I must admit it was all placebo effect :-(

Hi,

Is anyone else running into keyboard problems? On my N800, the HW Debian keyboard does everything (toggle, one line, etc.) except actually enter text in OpenOffice...I type but nothing shows up on the screen. The matchbox keyboard from within LXDE works, but when you full screen OpenOffice, the keyboard gets hidden behind, no matter how you set the layers. I've reinstalled and updated but no luck.

Any ideas?

Thanks....

well done Qole! Haven't tried it yet, but the idea to have this easily available is great.

This also allows users to experience what the performance of a non-hildonized program would approx be. Or how the program works. So before packaging and porting it, you can try it out with little hassle.

I'd like to see more recommended applications in the first post. Applications which people currently miss in Maemo, and which work (reasonably) well or have potential otherwise.

For lightwight browsing for example perhaps Midori is usable. Or isn't it? Reviews would be very useful!

Also, does any additional (or former) proprietary software work? Like Opera? Sun Java?

I like midori, flash is even faster than in microb.
Midori uses a lot of memory, is there a way it can limited?

Ah, the disadvantage of choice.

From the benchmarks I read WebKit uses a bit more memory than Gecko. Gecko was faster though (with Tracemoneky) but now both have a new JavaScript engine. You might like Tear it is also using WebKit, and runs native on Maemo not requiring Deblet. Midori probably uses a lot of memory because it runs on Deblet and requires its own libraries (e.g. GTK & Hildon); it cannot use the shared Maemo libraries which are already loaded.

I think the problem is that you're using the OS2008 version of the Matchbox Keyboard over top of LXDE. You can't do that. The pop-up keyboard only works in OS2008. You have to use the keyboard on the menu inside LXDE.

That's surprising. I guess I didn't discover that because I never actually run OpenOffice fullscreen in LXDE; if you're going to run OO fullscreen, you might as well run it in OS2008 and save the overhead of a second window manager.

This version of Easy Debian has Sun's "OpenJDK" in it; it is very compatible and noticeably faster than GCJ / Classpath, but still not very fast. Also, I've already stated in this thread that Midori works. If you want other recommended Debian apps, there's a thread for that, Debian Apps That Run Well on the Tablets.

This is the coolest thing to happen to my tablet since i used it to slice bread

Is it right for the terminal to be showing no feedback while the download is happening?
CPU is just about pegged.

Thanks, qole...that explains it. I was running OO exclusively inside LXDE because it seemed sluggish under OS2008 on the 0.6 version. Now that I try it with the newest version, it's much zippier, and I have all the functionality I was looking for.

Thanks for your work on this, it's brilliant...I showed it to a friend who has an iTouch, and he was crestfallen. :-)