Linux OCD #1

The moment I heard about the Droid phone was the moment I decided I needed a smartphone and no other option had a chance, after all it was pretty, powerful, and ran Linux...

So for a few months I enjoyed playing with the phone as it came, enjoying all the fancy features and its open development marketplace, but of-course it was only a matter of time before it began to become too normal, and the few limitations in the device began to stand out more and more; It made me have the familiar urge to try a different distro.. (or just run gentoo).. but ofcourse its a phone, it will run android, not normal Linux distros (yet).

Then I stumbled across the Droid hackers... salvation.

Rooting, kernel modding, flashing new roms, changing app sets... Now i can obsess over customizing my phone just like I do with any other Linux system, which is what i've been doing for the last couple of days in my spare time. My Droid is now rooted, has an awesome backup system, its prettier, its overclocked with the kernel cpu scaling governor, uses different system apps, can tether...

obsessive compulsive system tweaking status: temporarily satisfied.

Links:
http://alldroid.org/viewtopic.php?f=210&t=1556 [SmokedGlass Rom, my current favorite of the available roms]

http://alldroid.org/viewtopic.php?f=210&t=792 [DroidRootHelper, everything made insanely easy, its in the app market]