Dear friends,<br><br>Thanks for all your suggestions. Looks like this list was the correct one to submit questions to :-)<br><br>A couple of small follow-up, if I may:<br><br>1) updating the firmware: I have been using only GNU/Linux since 2000 (mostly Debian). I could try to find somebody with W2k or XP, but is there no GNU version of the software update at Nokia?! Surely this Debian-based unit has a Debian-based updating option? Also - since don't suppose 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade' would work - why can't the 'check for updates' option of the application manager now allow a complete firmware update? Is it in the ROM?
<br><br>2) batteries: just to see if I got this one right - I can leave the unit permanently connected to the charger and the batteries will be ok?<br><br>3) metalayer-crawler0: how do I disable this and could I simply let the unit sit for 5 minutes after boot-up instead?
<br><br>4) chargers: the unit comes with a Nokia AC-4U charger rated at DC 5V/<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">890mA</span>. My cellphone - a Nokia 6133 - comes with a AC-3U charger rated at DC 5V/<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">
350mA<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Could I use either one of them for *both* my N800 and my phone? That would mean less stuff to travel with (I also have a car charger for my phone - could I use that one for my N800?).
<br><br>5) repos: the catalog of my application manager currently includes the following repos:<br><br></span></span><ul><li><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
Nokia catalogue</span></span></li><li><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nokia catalogue (3rd party software)</span></span></li><li><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">FBReader repository</span></span></li><li><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">maemo-hackers</span></span>
</li><li><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">bora-extras</span></span></li><li><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
mg</span></span></li></ul><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Can I trust all these repos and what repos should I add to this list?<br><br>6) system crashes: how does one reinstall/fix a N800 unit after a major crash? Assuming that I - as roo - do something I should not, or that by installing the wrong software I really screw-up my tablet terminally. How can I rescue/reinstall it?
</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Is there a way to bootup the unit in CLI to fix any X/GUI problems?</span></span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>and lastly:<br><br>7) when an application goes out of control (which, for example, my mplayer seems to be doing), how does one stop/kill it? The best way I have found so far is to open a terminal and give it a kill command. But what should I do if the GUI is frozen? Rebooting seems a bad idea as the filesystem of the N800 is not journalled and I am concerned that reboots might result in lost data.
<br><br>Many thanks again and kind regards,<br><br>Andrei<br></span></span>