Hi there,
I've got an ubuntu running on this laptop for about a month (I've tried both 6.06 and 6.10) without any noticable problems.
About thermal information, I've just add "GNOME Sensors Applet" (I don't remember installing it) on the panel and it shows me the cpu temp. There's another applet for the cpu frequency.
As I said, every is almost fine (some hang on reboot and some issues with hibernate.)
I've got two goals now: using my external screen (22'' CRT) correctly and installing a FreeBSD (don't have the time right now, but there is no blocking reason.)
About the screen, does anybody had tried to plug a CRT screen (using the DVI/VGA dongle) and got the right resolution on the CRT (I don't care about having both displays, it's just to have a wider one at home.)