Ah...
That explains volumes....
Thank you sulu.
I figured since antix is based on deb and it being so smartly built...
It would be a shoe in.....

It explains a great deal....

Hmmm.

I'm not the brightest lightbulb in the pack when it comes to the gut workings of the n900...
I am more savvy concerning the n8x0...
And I don't know if the n900 can manage some of the tricks the n8x0's can do...
But as you mention ...deb is stalled for us unless the specifics of glibc are dealt with...

And as you mention ...alternates possible that aren't quite debian based...ie : Alpine ...

I am not sure how possible or viable it is for the n900...
But for the n8x0...
There are a plethora (don't get a chance to use that word often...humor me.) of alternate os's that aren't based on deb ...some eclectic ..some not...that run fine on the n8x0's....
That maybe something to look at as well....