General precautions

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The point of this article is to give guidelines how to avoid tablet "reflashing"(see definition below). Yes, Maemo has command line access and everybody can gain superuser priviledges very easily. It means that there's almost no limits for damage that can be done. The base system can of course be installed again, aka "reflashed". If you are interested and want to know more, please read article [[Updating the tablet firmware]]
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The point of this article is to give guidelines how to avoid tablet "reflashing" (see definition below). Yes, Maemo has command line access and everybody can gain superuser priviledges easily. With great power comes great responsibility. The base system can of course be installed again, aka "reflashed". If you are interested in reflashing and want to know more, please read article [[Updating the tablet firmware]]
== How to stay safe ==
== How to stay safe ==
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Staying in the safe side is really very easy. Install software with software installer and don't open command line application(xterm). The later can be of course forgotten if you know how to use command line.
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Staying in the safe side is rather easy. Install only signed software with software installer, and don't open command line application (xterm). The latter can be ignored if you know how to use command line.
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== What to avoid ==
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== The Don'ts -- what to avoid ==
Xterm:
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*Entering red pill mode
*Entering red pill mode
*Enabling extras-devel -repository in installer. (see [[Extras#Extras-devel]])
*Enabling extras-devel -repository in installer. (see [[Extras#Extras-devel]])
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[[Category:Basics]]
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Revision as of 00:59, 17 October 2009

The point of this article is to give guidelines how to avoid tablet "reflashing" (see definition below). Yes, Maemo has command line access and everybody can gain superuser priviledges easily. With great power comes great responsibility. The base system can of course be installed again, aka "reflashed". If you are interested in reflashing and want to know more, please read article Updating the tablet firmware


How to stay safe

Staying in the safe side is rather easy. Install only signed software with software installer, and don't open command line application (xterm). The latter can be ignored if you know how to use command line.

The Don'ts -- what to avoid

Xterm:

  • Gaining root address
  • Copy-pasting commands from internet to command line

Application manager:

  • Entering red pill mode
  • Enabling extras-devel -repository in installer. (see Extras#Extras-devel)