General questions about the N900

[a179]

Hi,
I heard about the N900 two weeks ago, I don't realy know much, but I am quite interested. I have some questions about the maemo and the N900 so I have decided to ask you:
Will I be able to have KDE on the N900 like on the n810 / n800?
Will regular linux applications and games (with low requirements) work on the N900 (like on a tablet or computer)?
Thanks!

[solideogloria]

Will regular linux applications and games (with low requirements) work on the N900 (like on a tablet or computer)?
Thanks!

Most likely. But they need to be cross-compiled for ARM tweaked to fit the user interface. the complexity of this task can vary from trivial to (almost?) impossible :)

[a179]

Thank you for the realy quick reply!!!
What are the statiatics? what is the aproximate percent of those application (which are easily cross-compiled)? (if you know :)
What do you mean by "to fit the user interface", and if I change the Desktop Environment (KDE, openbox)? I didn't understand.
Thanks again!

[a179]

answer? somebody?

[epz]

a good start would be to look at a source based distro like gentoo, if a package has a number of architectures then it will likely be able to be ported faster.

You may even be able to cross compile it yourself out the box.