chudood, thanks for the report! I also installed easy debian yesterday, and after removing a lot of the programs i don't need (e.g. openoffice.org) I managed to install a more or less full texlive with xe(la)tex support right from the repositories. I haven't tested much but everything seems to work just fine I haven't installed emacs 23 yet, since I actually find Vim more usefull on this little device (never ever thought I should utter such blasphemic words! ) with the n900's not ideal access to special keyboard characters. Vim's modal approach simply seems to function better given these short comings of the device. I will however also try to install emacs 23 one of these days. @ acano: Xe(La)TeX is a unicode compatible version of (La)TeX which uses the normal fonts installed on the system. This is usefull for someone like me who works with a lot of very strange characters/glyphs (I'm in the field of mediaval manuscript studies, and in medieval manuscripts you find a lot of characters which cannot be reproduced by standard TeX fonts)