Nokia N900 Tips for use

has been to the Linux handheld terminal quite cold, recently from the idle fish into a European version, the boot for evaluation and use. The following experience is for novice reference only.

There is a reason to choose N900, first of all N900 relatively small (as MID, compared to the phone or very thick), and N900 relative to a few generations of product configuration is higher, and joined the phone function, no longer like N800 need to rely on WIFI. And N900 uses the Maemo 5 system (based on Debian), many software are supported, if you can Python, hehe

When it comes to Linux the most important must be the source, the source determines the richness of the system software, and the source of the Maemo community is very powerful, and Python,perl,ruby and other languages can be perfectly run on the Maemo, so that N900 extensibility is infinite. Here are the sources of three Maemo communities, and it is necessary to study N900 three sources.

Name: Maemo Extras
Website: http://repository.maemo.org/extras/
Release: Fremantle
Component: Free Non-free

Name: Maemo extras-testing
Website: http://repository.maemo.org/extras-testing/
Release: Fremantle
Component: Free Non-free

Name: Maemo extras-devel
Website: http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/
Release: Fremantle
Component: Free Non-free

The default machine is not installed in Chinese, so first to English operation.
The way to add the source is to open the Program Manager (App.manager), then point to the top menu bar (Application Manager), and then open the program directory (application catalogs), fill in the format above, After filling up will start a long update, recommended even WIFI (need more than 10 MB), after the update, go into Download that one, also have to wait a long time, and so on all programs out after push keyboard input Faster application Manager You see a software, install it, Then you do not have to endure the system comes with the program Manager turtle speed.

Then use Faster Application Manager that manager to refresh the source once (the first time you refresh the source to wait a certain amount of time), open the installation list is much faster, we must install the software.

N900-I18N-ZH_CN (Chinese language Pack)
Mscim (Input method Base module)
Mscim-googlepinyin (google Pinyin Input method)
Mscim-n900-ppinputmethod (mengtian Pinyin Input method)
Mscim-modules-table
Mscim-tables-symbol
Rootsh (Root privilege)
FMMs (MMS module)

The installation of these are basically no use of the problem, as for the science and technology after slowly come.

Nokia N900 Tips for use