2009
12.25
12.25
I recently received my N900 (it had to be forwarded on to me in Australia from the UK) – and it’s easily the best phone i have ever used. Maemo 5 rocks, and its amazing to be running this kind of software on a device like this.
The web browser is fantastic (based on the gecko backend) – I’ve composed all of this post on the device using the standard wordpress backend.
Seems to work fine with Ubuntu as well – it shows up as a mass storage device and a GSM connection when I connected it to my machine with USB.
I have been attempting to improve my python skills, so maybe I’ll attempt to create some simple python and gtk apps.
I’d be very interested in experiences with VNC over SSH on this device — or other remote control software. If this interests you, I’d be happy to help.
I have successfully connected with VNC to my desktop using SSH port forwarding. The standard “ssh user@host -L 5900:localhost:5900″ worked from the terminal (once SSH client is installed). There is also a VNC viewer in the repositories, which I then connected to “localhost”. It can be a bit fiddly with the small screen though – this is a case where the stylus is pretty useful.
Thanks much for that — I was curious how that would go.
Remote controlling your :0 display (your desktop’s actual display) is only one use for this. If you’re running Linux on your desktop, you can set up the old-fashioned VNC server on :1 (port 5901) and above, and tweak that session to give you a display more suited for your small screen. Think of this method as an extension to your handheld. No reason you couldn’t have multiple going at once far as I know.
I suppose that’s a solution looking for a problem, but somehow I’d think it could come in handy — especially for monitoring lan activity.