I finally got around to upgrading from lynx to meerkat. I figured that since meerkat has been out for 6 months now, it should be reasonably stable. And certainly I haven’t seen any issues with it yet.
On the other hand I haven’t seen any changes either!
- java is still 1.6.0_20 ok, I suppose that makes sense; it’s not like java 1.7 is out yet 
- firefox is still 3.6
- python is still 2.6
- openoffice is still ‘openoffice’, not ‘libreoffice’
- blender is still 2.49a
Nothing seemed different really! Maybe because I did an upgrade, rather than a fresh install? Sometimes I notice that fresh installs change quite a lot more things than upgrades.