Alright, thanks a bunch for the advice. Finding a neutral source about Linux on the net seems to be a pretty tough task. Slackware's looking good though. Once again, thanks a bunch for the advice.

And on the matter of the buffer-overflows... well, you know, in order to prevent something you need to know what exactly that is you're willing to stop. I know the theory of buffer-overflow exploits, but it'd be quite fun to actually have a couple of runs over them in practice.