Thanks Qole, I've installed it and it's good. Just be aware that:
lxterminal doesn't work
installing abiword and gnumeric leaves evince and yelp in a broken state, where you can't install or remove them either.

Yes, and if you leave LXDE running and come back to your phone after a while, the screensaver is running! Ha!

Definitely needs some work. Not going to happen for a while, I'm afraid. My life is a bit upside-down at the moment.

I've managed to bring back all the menu entries in LXDE that have disappeared after the last update by manually running
Just a single such install brought back all the missing items. Actually I did it with xmaxima.desktop, but I guess the above should work for everybody. If it does, I'd propose to include this in the wiki.

Only evince is (still) missing. There is a /usr/share/applications/evince.desktop file, but something in it must be preventing inclusion in the LXDE menu. Haven't yet figured out what, but will let you know as soon as I have.

UPDATE: Evince shows up as "Document Viewer" in "Graphics" as soon as one sets
in /usr/share/applications/evince.desktop and re-runs xdg-desktop-menu as above.

Would it be possible to do something like this? With the overclocked 930/1000mhz kernel.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=631389

From my limited understanding they don't have to recompile apps.

imperiallight: yes, it is possible (even easier on Maemo devices than Android ones), and it has been done several times. I'm just not very interested in it. I want to get desktop apps into the hands of Maemo device owners, and I believe that is best done via a chroot.

Hi qole, i have tried EDC before and found it installed too many apps on the n900 for my liking, is there way to have the just EDC app, i will be downloading via PC as last time look ages to unpack.

Thanks

With Easy Debian you don't have to recompile apps, you just apt-get install them from debian.org for the armel architecture.

The chroot way of doing it, or rather qole's way of using chroot, is actually much better than really booting a Debian OS, because Maemo is still running and its infrastructure made available to Easy Debian! So it's an addition, not a substitution!

With synaptic or apt-get you can easily de-install Debian packages, but this won't reduce the size of the image file. It will be only useful for making room for other packages you are more interested in. Other than that - what's the problem with "too many apps"? You can of course also simply delete the few icons for Debian apps in the hildon menu.

Anybody tried OpenOffice with the overclocked kernel? (Note: I'm not encouraging anyone to try! It isn't my fault if you fry your CPU!)

still takes a while to load at 800Mhz, but is much faster once loaded.