artron: I was referring to this - http://kde.org/workspaces/plasmanetbook/

I would like to try it out myself, but alas, I haven't been able to get my resources on it...

What prevents you from running it? Just enable it in the settings.
But I'm not sure that it's truly lighter. If you want something light enough for N900 try Lubuntu/openbox.

I'm not planning to do it but if you want to try you have all needed tools, just try it. I will try to help with it but I would prefer if you create a separate thread for it. But right now new kernel is the highest priority.

I'm not sure that I've understood it, can you rephrase?

I'm getting tempted to trying to run Kubuntu. Does the clean image from this script work?
Would be very nice. And the other thing you need is the low-fat package, am I right?
I imagine that it would run a little bit better considering Unity is mostly made for a large array of shortcuts that include the Super key, unless you reconfigure. It would however be a good foundation to work out of. KDE installs KDM, and from there you can naturally start Unity.
Reminds me... Does Gnome Shell work with armhf?
That would be really nice to try out, considering it's a lot lighter, at least from what I've seen.

EDIT: Gnome Shell is available
Will try to install it on rev54 with the kernel I know kind of works. (2.6.35)

According to http://libdlo.freedesktop.org/wiki/ there are displaylink drivers in the 2.6.38 kernel. This opens some very nice possibilities if we can run anything newer than that

Problem:
I tried installing Kubuntu on my card. This is what I found out:
resolv.conf does NOT sync with the host. It should normally do this during a chroot. (Or is this a consequence of dist-upgrade?)
And I had to do some manual installs, which again led to a freeze in some parts of the kernel of my system. Now I'm pretty confused if I should give a beep about the health of the card or not, as there are a ton of processes running from it. I can't stop any of them because of the freeze, so I have no choice essentially. Just a good-to-know for others: dist-upgrade + kubuntu-daily don't mix well.

Oooh... I'm currently booting up to KDE. As soon as I have access to a terminal... Ultimate tweaking begins... (Namely shut up Nepomuk and the next CPU hog I see.)

Ok, a little summary of using KDE:
- Bootup requires some time, as apt has to do its regular thing and so on.
- Still the stuck-on-drag bug/problem, especially on widgets
- Experience is generally smooth...
- I don't really know how to use KDE... xD (Long-time Gnome and Unity user here...)
- It seems like most of the slowness is simply caused by, well, because it's KDE on 600Mhz and a 110Mhz GPU (not sure if it's GPU accelerated..? Could be..?)

I'd say it runs well for being Kubuntu, though. I'll try and see if I can get Gnome Shell running. I think it should be lighter, and I also have a working display manager that I can fall back to.

How do I connect to Wifi from the KDE network applet?

Gnome Shell is currently not possible to install... There is some mess with the dependencies. gnome-shell-common is apparently version 3.3, while gnome-shell is 3.2...

Xfce it is...

Ran out of juice while installing... Meh... Fixing that later.

Stskeeps on #mer@freenode just helped finding this interesting page:
https://build.pub.meego.com/project/...ptation%3AN900
(hint: firmware+kernel)

Edit: RPMs are here:
http://repo.pub.meego.com/CE:/Adapta...mv7hl/armv7hl/

Attaching Nemo kernel support draft.

UPDATE: See revision 54+

Sadly rev 63 with nemo still breaks with:

`/media/source/var/opt' -> `/mnt/var/opt'
`/media/source/var/run' -> `/mnt/var/run'
`/media/source/vmlinuz' -> `/mnt/vmlinuz'
qemu: uncaught target signal 11 (Segmentation fault) - core dumped
install.sh: line 282: 2358 Segmentation fault chroot $MOUNTPOINT_TARGET /tmp/install-chroot-part.sh
cp: cannot stat `/mnt/boot.scr': No such file or directory

EDIT: this time got qemu installed ver 0.14.0

"init: No available ptys" bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...rt/+bug/936667

I have 0.14.1 on 11.10. Can you try upgrading? And revision 64+.

Nemo packages that have missing dependencies:
location-proxy-bin-0.2