Nokia N900 for an admin
Provides ssh and vnc. Nice features, gps, wlan, sip. My hints here are focused on getting the device to fill my admin-needs. I want to listen to the podcasts . * pro: when buying this you actually get root without having to break in or something (hi iphone-slaves..)!
pro: has a keyboard
pro: contains complete linux-box, think of encrypted homedir, mobile notesbook with revisioncontrol, read ebooks (FBReader)
cons: heavier than android phones (but still lighter than my Nokia E90)
pro: many videoformats out of the box supported
pro: One of the things i really appreaciate is to use approaches well known from linuxworld to solve problems. Want the N900 act as wlan-station and NAT traffic to internet for other computers? Loading iptables-kernelmodules, activating routing, running dhcpd - all the known steps.
first things
applications
many apps available, some already 'extras-repo' you just activated:
vncviewer, openssh server/client, nmap, mplayer, vim
emulators: bochs (x86 emu), scummvm, dosbox (run dos software), pearpc (there is a video showing mac osx 10.3 running on this), emus for maeme/c64, psx4all emulates playstation
amiga emulation:
'Extra Decoders Support' provides additional codecs, there is even 'TeX Live 2009'
x11vnc: install it and access the n900-screen via 'vncviewer ip-of-n900:0' from a i.e. a linuxbox
mailing:
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games: activate extras-devel, 'apt-get install sense wormux freeciv-client-sdl prboom doom-wad-shareware', 'bounce 3d' from the nokia shop
even more apps: EasyDebian
install this to get a 4GB file-image, inside a complete debian with many more applications
openoffice/iceweasel are there by default, vpnc available for install.
dont forget to reboot the n900 after installation of the 4gb debian-image
browsers:
N900 for routing/NATing to the internet
apt-get install wvdial
cat >/etc/wvdial.conf<<EOT
[Dialer Defaults]
Modem = /dev/ttyACM0
Phone = *99#
Username = t-mobile
Password = t-mobile
Dial Command = ATDT
Baud = 460800
Init1 = AT+COPS=0
Init2 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"ip","internet.t-mobile"
# Init2 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"ip","internet.t-mobile.de"
EOT
wvdial
snippets
mplayer tv:// -tv device=/dev/video0 # back camera, 848*480 - 0.4 megapixel
mplayer tv:// -tv device=/dev/video1 # front camera, 640x480 - 0.3 megapixel
other OSs on N900
links