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...s I was online. It also has wireless and even yer old bleep-buzz modem options. You may be able to run R on the Easy Desktop, but I went straight to the Full Desktop (KDE). There is an excellent description of how to download the necessary files and enable KDE at: http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:getkde This gives you what most people who use Linux are used to (you can apparently enable GNOME, too). Now for the fun. I wasn't able to compile R from source as gcc wouldn't go. I'll let you know if I get it working. As in setting up KDE, you have to add a repository. 1a. Applications...

...newbie, never ever tried it before, so it's good both for me and for family use to retain the original "easy mode" GUI while having R running on the same machine. Full desktop mode (=standard KDE) is also easily enabled by adding kicker and ksmserver (see http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:getkde, I did it "the manual way" and it worked; just take heed that kicker and ksmserver were not found in the '900's repository and I had to take them from the '701's). The only thing I wish I were able to do now is to have the graphics windows defaults changed to a size fitt...