I gotta say, I am surprised at the people having trouble installing this. I am a total n00b and know very little about Linux, other than installing it on my Playstation 3 which is Yellow Dog. If you follow the instructions, to the letter, it works. Worked for me anyhow.

Do not do anything other than what is described. You do not have to untar or unzip anything. FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS. Nothing else is required. I suspect people are thinking there must be more to this install. There isn't. The fist post in this chain is all that is required.

I used MMC2 (internal) didn't reflash OS first or anything like that, only had 50Mb of N800 memory available, but followed the instructions to the letter, downloaded files to PC and transfered over to N800 on a USB, installed in the order directed and boom. KDE worked straight away. I don't even have any font issues.

Penguinbait, you are a God in my book. Thanks for taking the obvious trouble to get this working on the N800. It is truly brilliant. Enough thanks cannot be bestowed upon you.

If you are thinking about it and reading this thread, just do it. You will not be disappointed. So much more functionality. I haven't even scratched the surface of what is available.

As said before, Laptop functionality in your palm. Nearly anyway!