Paul M wrote: > On 30/12/2007, Walt Scrivens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> of the forum posts about the hacks and tricks some N800 users have >> gone through to get root and install kismet, nmap, etc., I just >> assumed that it would be easier to do with Angstrom. I honestly did >> not know that both were Debian-based, and simply assumed that the >> Nokia implementation would be "locked down" so that you couldn't do >> much more than web surfing with it. >> > > just go "red pill" mode, then you can become root, add repositories, > install bash, kismet, xterm, etc etc... it's pretty trivial. > _________________________ > Yeah, for an advanced user it is trivial, but you still have to drop to a root shell and run apt-get instead of using the provided package manager (which I find to be a piece of garbage, quite honestly).
The issue with the package manager is that they don't allow package 'mixing' between repos anymore, although I think another issue with maemo is the sheer number of repos - instead of contributing to a central repo, everyone has their own - kind of inevitably leads to package conflicts IM (not-so-educated) O. Rgds, josh _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
