Fixing prioritisation of Application manager slowness & Media player choppiness

As anyone who has installed or updated software on any version of Maemo will know, when Application Manager starts working everything else... stops. A Talk user, "colchaodemola", has proposed an edit to the system policy file to reduce the Application Manager's share of CPU resources: For those who hate when the apt-worker process start and make the whole system slow like hell , here is the solution edit /usr/share/policy/etc/rx51/syspart.conf search for "/usr/libexec/apt-worker" and comment it. Reboto your phone, now apt-worker will have lowest cpu shares [...] You can also change priority of the media player to a higher one, so you will get almost no choppy audio when playing and multi tasking. Be aware, that editing system files is dangerous, and changing settings like these may have unintended consequences, so users looking to make this change should take care, have a recent backup and be prepared to reflash if anything goes wrong.

Prototype MeeGo Nokia device photos?

Teh interwebz are a flutter with four pieces of contradictory gossip and rumourmongering. In order of increasing likelihood:

1) The "N9" will be running an x86 CPU. Not entirely unplausible if "N9" is replaced with "a future Nokia MeeGo device", but announced information from the 2009 Maemo Summit, code commits from *@nokia.com for OMAP360 and the magnitude of a change like that point to it being unlikely.

2) The "N9" has been cancelled and being redeveloped on a new hardware platform. Not particularly verifiable either way, seems rather unlikely at this point.

3) The "N9" will be running on a dual-core ARM chip. Again, if "N9" is relepaced with "a future Nokia MeeGo device".

4) These are photos which have leaked out of a MeeGo-running Nokia prototype.