ALSO: Two things...

1) It's spartan and minimalist--with VERY VERY little pre-installed. THANK YOU! That's what I wanted in an open-source OS. Give me just a clean slate with nothing much more than an app installation tool and let ME decide on what I want. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
2) Are there any repositories out there from which to obtain software? It seems like the app manager has nothing available.