My biggest issues appear to be that the system wants to rebuild the ld.so.cache and modules each reboot and no matter what i do dma is turned off each time i reboot.

takes 3-4 times longer to boot off of the HD than on the CD/DVD.
This is running on a alienware sentia which is a 1.6Ghz Intel Mobile Centrino with 1.5G of ram and a 100Gig HD

Performance is actually really bad. I love Linux and Knoppix flat kicks ass but i think im gonna have to go back to debian(sarge mixed with a touch of sid) and hope i can address some of the issues since very few of my modifications are surviving reboot and i have never been able to speed up boottime which is literally 5 minutes or more.