i like to consider myself extremely knowledgable about computers, but i am embarassed to say that i only know one single thing about anything to do with linux... it has a game with penguins racing down a slope, that i have ported on my windows pc... anything about windows i know, but i want to learn about linux. i am planning on installing a flavor of linux on a partition on my new laptop, cooperating with the current vista os... i want to know the most stable flavor of linux... i have heard good things about something called ubuntu... also, if i find a program for linux on the web, will it work on any flavor of linux... i have several linux programs that i want to run... will it work for any flavor of linux if it just says "for linux" on the link...thank you for any help that i recieve