Every day as
-phone
-ghettoblaster (fmtx)
-camera (bless900),
-notes (leafpad)
-games (xterm + bash and python scripting)
-encyclopedia + dict (evopedia)
-music + audiobooks (openmediaplayer)
-podcast (gpodder + mediaplayer)
-protection from bureaucracy + entreprises lies (recaller)
-calculator
-converter (gonvert)
-mail while away (stock mail)
-browser when very very far away (microb, opera)
-radio
-calendar with colors modified to be more readable
-notes widget
-alarm clock (stock)
-countdown timer (countdown timer and tickstill)

I like much
-hamster filer as filebrowser
-apt-get and sometimes FAM as app manager

Never got to work:
-fmms (at all)
-mobilehotspot (not flawlessly)

Encrypted partition auto-mounted at boot above /home/user.
Default boot into the normal /home/user if no password is entered at the beginning of boot, when the blue led lits for 2 seconds.
Encrypted but connected...well, you know... technique sometimes lives for technique...

swap (not encrypted) on sd.

Backupmenu and auto.rsync from the PC

Cloned to a spare n900 with automatic wifi update

I Would change to Pro1 with Leste or SFOS. But: do I really need it? Have to try SFOS first.

I would advise you to begin with the reading of https://wiki.maemo.org/CSSU, and use backupmenu to when your installation is satisfying.

with fmms I always forget to put up somewhere the configs and then I have to search the web to find out the right ones for my operator which isn't that easy to find. Have now again working fmms but I do not suggest to use it. People sending so big images or vids which then freezes your device.

Swap on sdcard is something I have thought or as well as repartitioning to get a bigger root and cloning emmc to sdcard - all things I have come across on TMO but which I have not yet dared to try.

You use openmediaplayer for podcasts. So you download them from somewhere or what?

Sorry, my mistake, post corrected:
-music + audiobooks (openmediaplayer)
-podcast (gpodder + mediaplayer)

And I was forgetting :
Purgatory DJ for random music listening and sorting.

[QUOTE=manojkumaru;1564359]Well, joining the party very late. I am like back from my coma. I would love to set up my n900 back to where it used to be, but not sure where to start. Should I flash mine and set it up from the start? Are there working repos that I can use? {/quote]

While the nokia repos are gone, yes, there are mirrors of the original repositories. You can find a list here:

https://wiki.maemo.org/Repository#Li...o_repositories

Batteries are easily had and inexpensive on ebay. Not sure if they are "genuine".

I just heard about Maemo Leste in this thread. I will be looking into it.

And even at the end of 2021 i'm still using my N900, as broken as **** as it is at times.

I still use as main phone

I have CSSU testing, Pali's U-Boot, Maemo Leste, root access, Power-Kernel, postmarketOS

Sadly it's no longer may main phone since mid-May, because the modem broke. However, I still carry it with me everywhere - all my media is on it (after 10 years of operation) :-)

Well I'm 12 years older (as is my eyesight) and that means so is the N900 and its a little impractical for me to use for my job, but it still works, I get it out and use it sometimes and I still think its one of my favourite devices ever. Nothing else has ever been as interesting to use or as open, which honestly is slightly depressing.

Still use my n8x0s and n900s...
Daily in fact.
My n900s are quasi daily drivers now...
I cannot quite use it for everything I want ..but that is alright too...