I booted my T41 laptop from the CD. The boot screen is a little different, and hitting F2 gives progress percentage indications while the bootup sequence goes in text mode, but I don't notice any other changes thus far.

I couldn't get DHCP working with my IBM (Atheros) a/b/g NIC. Putting in my WEP password and picking a 192.168.0.x address got the wireless connection working. (I think I had this same problem with Ubuntu a while ago.)

It's using KDE 3.5, but is very toned down from some other distro I saw (KNOPPIX?) that uses it. I'm sure the eyecandy can be turned back on if one is into that sort of thing.

I'll poke around a little, but so far I don't notice major changes from SimplyMEPIS 3.3. I'm sure it has updated applications, etc., but those can be apt-get-ted. I'll probably stick with what's installed (IIABDFI) until the final version is out.

If anyone has anything they'd like me to check, just let me know.

Cheers,
Scott.