I spent more than 6 hours playing with the live CD experience; it was that much fascinating. Starting the PCLinuxOS desktop was more than I could expect.
Unfortunately, it started with a little snag. My T42 would not boot the CD. I tried burning several CDs on several computers, using different burn speeds, to no avail. I even re-downloaded the image and checked the hash to make sure there were no errors. Still, T42 refused to get into the desktop. The boot progress bar would fill up to approx. one quarter and halt foreve