I have had this idea for sometime now. Too bad it is an idea I am not able to do by myself.

I have been here for some years now and even though it has been very teaching to dig and search for info to make things work I think something else could be also good to have.

Maemo Leste is developing and soon people may stop using Fremantle. But there are a lot stuff on Fremantle side which may never be ported on Leste and it would be a shame that they would be forgotten.

So I have thought that could it be possible for members who know how and have been using N900 a lot until these days that there would be one final collaboration made to make as updated Fremantle version as possible for people who become here as new N900 users?

I don't know could or should it be made as a CSSU update (which would of course be nice to have one final update) or as a custom image you can get running with backup/cloning tool (which I think would be maybe easier to accomplish).

I think that CSSU thumb could be the best starting point because of the low memory of the device, but some may know things better than me what would be the best option to start with.

I'm not sure how things work but my idea is something like:


1. Flash the system with latest firmware.
2. Do CSSU update
3. Install needed kernel
4.Install needed backup/cloning tool
5. Clone updated custom Fremantle image


Better would be:
1. Flash the system
2. Do CSSU FINAL update which would do everything


During these years there have been shared several updates after CSSU to get things to work:


1. Tinymailcamel package to get Modest default mail to support IMAP
2. Updating certs from devel repo with openssl1 and maemosec-certman-common-ca
3. GPS fix with google supl and ip change
4. Nginx setup to get microb browser to access web
5. Cutetube2 fixes to get youtube working
6. Iptable configures for firewall
7. Hotspot and ssh tweaks and tricks
8. Some have automated backups and encrypted folders
9. Swap and overclock settings with battery patch watchdog disabled.
10. Youtube-dl
11. Telegram cli
12. Maps
13. Podcast and rss reader fixes (which may work with nginx too)
14. Custom partitioning for system to have more space
15. Deletes for unneccessary bloatware
16. Browser tweaks for Fennec 17 and Opera 12.
17. Sulu just published one final jessie image for Easy Debbie and juiceme has made instructions how to get Netsurf beowser running on it, which would now be Netsurf 3.10.


Just to mention few which I am aware of.



I think the custom image should include all these basic stuff so that they would be working as default. People who would not wan't some of them could then uninstall them, but it would be easier to uninstall from a fully working system setup than try to maintain or install right packages to get things to work.

It has seemed that some of the folks who know how and who have been using N900 have been shifting to use other devices. With them the knowledge will be soon gone and they may not be in this forum as often as they have been helping new users. So this kind of collaborative effort would be a historicly important and it would record the last state of maemo Fremantle to later generations to wonder how they got things working with that old kernel!

It would also make it possible for people to use Fremantle as long as possible and for those who wan't to keep Fremantle still alive it would give a starting point for new users and developers where they do not need to use time to solve things which have been solved already, but where the fixes are scattered throughout the forum threads.

I was using for a while Nokia E90 with symbian and found out how it is going with Symbian and heard about the latest Delight updates for different devices, where the system have been tweaked to work as fast as possible, unneccessary bloatware taken away, certs updated etc. It felt good and I thought could it still be done for Fremantle one last time before Leste?

I believe it could be done and I believe it would not be such an overwhelming effort. But what do you people think? And if you like it and know people who could help to make it happen could you contact them?

So this has been in my mind for some time and wanted to share it.