Basics

What is a soekris box?
Soekris Engineering is a company that makes cool little x86-based mini-computers. There are several models of popular soekris machines, I happen to have a net4526 , although this should theoretically work on any of the 'net' series
What's a good way to find out more about soekris stuff?
Check out their 'support' section on soekris.com and sign up for their -announce and -tech mailing lists
What is Linux?
Sheesh, you haven't heard of Linux?
Which distro?
Debian.
Debian {is the best linux distro ever, sucks}!
I know.