Distro of choice is Kubuntu (pronounced "koo-boon-too", means "towards humanity" in Bemba)

• Info about Linux
• Info about GNU
• Free Software Foundation
• Info about Ubuntu
• Info about Kubuntu
• Get Kubuntu

Resources

• Ubuntu Forums
• Kubuntu Forums
• Gentoo Handbook
• Gentoo Installation
• Running Gentoo on the IBM Thinkpad T41p (Pete Leonard)
• Linux on Thinkpad T41p Guide (Priyadi's Place)
• Running Linux on IBM Laptop and Notebook Computers (Linux on Laptops)
• Linux on Laptop

Assorted HOWTOs

• PDFEdit on Ubuntu

• SELECT only a single row in MySQL

• Pass a list or list of tuples to MySQL in Python

• Unzip all files in a directory / subdirectories