@aspire: Sialcom lidat... No hidden charges, speed like snail lol. Shame I travel around so much I actually need the unfailable coverage. But sometimes in kampung areas WITH 3G, boleh tahan the speed. In KL don't have to say, like mabuk snail only.

@Josh_M: That's a "shop", Eviljazz hoax. Really popular in the oc circles.

@Nicholas_oh:Those extra megabytes are the dependencies, which are removed by uninstalling, NORMALLY. If not you have to run "sudo apt-get clean" and "sudo apt-get autoremove" from x-term. Or hunt down and remove it manually with "sudo apt-get remove (package name)".

And yeah, other then the easy Lehto method up front, there's the slightly more complex Titan's kernel, which I am using.

Also you can set up to underclock whewhenver you lock screen, and overclock back when you unlock and all sort of other strange things. But that's a whole different ballgame.

@dannyseoh: enable ex-devel and do "sudo apt-get unrar". Command line unrar, but you can install Xarchiver from the repos for a GUI.

well u can try th guide from Jakiman...

Pretty much str8 forward...

SYGIC maps is much easier..
any tutorial u gotta check on the first page if it is not available there you gotta request aspire to post one
he is good at it
 

lol, I'm serious bro. I've just spent some time reading a lotta threads and wikis at talk.maemo.org then just slowly with all the tutos learning my way around the filesystem. Got my n900 in April. before that didn't know how to use linux, etc. Thats what i really love about this phone. Initially when i was considering buying it, just looking around at the threads, i had serious doubts about whether i would enjoy, and be able to handle it. Its surprisingly not that hard to learn what you need just as long as you have an interest and don't mind spending some time tweaking and testing different things. Symbian ignited that interest for me with my n82, and now my n900 keeps that interest burning, I can truly say, having no linux experience is not a obstacle for n900 owners, plus i love the fact that its customizable to the point that my n900 is unique,

plus our Lyn community is quite good. we're very up to date on the latest tweaks, apps, etc,