TuxRunner

Wow, looks like this new version of WordPress has the potential to make my job at work much easier.  Probably the biggest most amazing update is the merging of WordPress and WordPress MU (multi-user) into one version.  The MU edition allowed you to have multiple blogs run by multiple users from the same single installation.  This of course is going to make managing corporate blogs a lot easier since we don’t have to do a separate installation and database for each blog now.

Looks like there’s some other notable features as well: bulk updating for plugins, custom menus, new APIs for themes, custom admin userID, a new default theme, and more.  Check out the release notes and information over at http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0

Here’s some steps you can take to install some new boot videos on your N900, and then store them in /opt so that you don’t take up storage space on rootfs.  You’ll need to first find some boot videos that you’d like to use.  Typically I’ve been finding a great collection of them posted to the forums over at http://talk.maemo.org.  Looks like the best format for them is AVI format from what I’m reading in the posts on that forum.

Download them to your N900 either over the internal browser, or transfer them over USB cable.  I put them under /home/user/MyDocs/tmp (which will show up as /N900/tmp on the device).  Then go through these steps to set them up “optified”, which just means that you’ll be storing them in some of the 32GB of space the N900 has instead of the limited storage available on the “rootfs” filesystem. (continue reading…)

So just in the past few weeks I’ve been seeing a fair amount of news articles and blog postings around the Internet showing attempts at getting other OSes running on the Nokia N900.  Some of them are surprising, and others aren’t.  But here’s a small list of some examples of other operating systems that have been known to run on the N900.  Yes, some are under an emulated environment, but I’m still counting it even if it is emulated.  What I’m not going to dive into here is the console game systems that have been successfully emulated on the N900.  That’s a whole other article.

Windows 3.1/95/98/NT4 – Appears that it’s possible to run Windows on the Nokia N900 under an emulation package called DOSBox.  DOSBox has been around for about 8 years now and runs on many different host OSes such as Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX.  It’s emulates an x86 PC with DOS and includes sound, graphics, joystick, mouse, and modem support.  DOSBox was ported to Maemo5 and allows the N900 to run old video games like Doom and Wolfenstein 3D.  So since it emulates a full x86/DOS environment, why not try running one of those older OSes to see if they work? (continue reading…)