Looking for a good spot for newby help

[Tyrion]

Listen, I know I am probably not the target demographic for this device. Frankly I do browsing the net and internet radio on it. But I would really like to take advantages of open source. Everyone is bragging about it like its the greatest ting in the world . I know it means cool free software. I also know it means that many people just love messing around with OS and creating for the sake of doing so, I am not one of those people. I just want to find some really cool prograns to make my tablet better and I would be glad to help the developers out by giving them non tech, real world analysis of their work, But it order for everybody to be happy, is there any resource for the average non techy to go to just find cool programs with clear simply instructions for getting this stuff onto my tablet. I really love the potential of this thing and don't want to sell it on ebay. But I haven't yet found a source for this help that I am desperately seeking, Things like the FM radio program just install and boom, its up, same with the official programs frrom Nokia like Media stream. Is this possible? or normal? or do I have to jump through hoops to figure out how to really get this thing going so I can praise it everywhere.

Desperately seeking some help

[sevenape]

You can get a few of the choicest apps by going to >Tools>Application manager> install new applications. You can install all sorts of apps from Scummvm to mplayer to maemo weather. :)

[brendan]

goto this page...

http://maemo.org/maemowiki/ApplicationRepositoriesSourceList

the first two entries will already be in the application manager. copy the rest into the repository list and refresh the package list.

additionally there are some apps not in the repos, which are available that this site...

http://maemo.org/maemowiki/

[Tyrion]

Thanks for the help. I appreciate it. This my sound like the dumbest question in the world. But what is a repository? Sorry, never used Linux in my life.

[rattis]

Thanks for the help. I appreciate it. This my sound like the dumbest question in the world. But what is a repository? Sorry, never used Linux in my life.

A collection of software packages for installation on your linux distro. In this case, it's software created for the nokias.

Different collections (different repositories) have different packages.