Gee, I might have something to say. I'll be brave enough to wade into this fist fight if you guys agree to let me keep my shirt. Or you can have it if it fits. I do think these sentiments expressed in this thread accurately represent the sentiments on both sides of this debate. This thread has gone on for a while so you know what I mean. Anyway, If the OP had been in a bit better mood I think he might have said something like, gee I don't want to spend the time learning about linux so I can get this to work. How about a few options or simple instructions so that I can basically understand how to get where I want to go in a much shorter less painful time frame? Not coming from a Linux background myself I share the OPs misgivings about the IT, but I also have had a very interesting year of working with it and finding that without xterm and Linux, I have been able to get where I have wanted to go. If I could wave a magic wand, it would do one very simple thing-educate about those 'repo thingys'. For the last 11 months I didn't really understand how the Repositories worked. I'm sure people experienced with Linux take this simple thing for granted. I may be wrong, maybe it's here somewhere, and I'm sure you will point us in the right direction if you know, but I don't see an obvious place where this very basic education about how repos work is located. Now you will say, OK Neil you write it in the WIKI. I may. But I don't think I would be the right person to write about that because I don't really think I have a firm grasp on it yet although I'm getting there. So, you say educate yourself about Linux. Well I guess that could help. But for most purposes on the IT, it doesn't appear to me that you need X-term. You just need to understand how to manage those installation tasks as cleanly as possible . I now have a working ability to handle this device and I'm getting more than I dreamed I would out of it and I doubt I'll ever know much about Linux or need to know.

Neil