That's funny as I on the other hand have found out that there's awfully lot more stuff in the repos as was for N9 when it came out... Granted that I needed to install things like python and less when they were preinstalled on N9, but they are just a "zypper in" away, and on the other hand to get things like rsync or luks you had to install additional community repos. (which were not there in the beginnig, BTW...)