Unbuntu Netbook Remix is a simple, quick way to get Ubuntu on your netbook. And yes, it is optimized for netbooks. I have Ubuntu 9.10 on my ASUS EEE 1000. Took me about 20 minutes or less to get it up and going. Verizon aircard works like a charm with it too.
1) Download Ubuntu Remix [...]

This could NOT be easier.
First, connect to the verizon network using your aircard on a windows machine. I think it just needs this first time authentication.
1) Now on your ubuntu machine, right click on the network applet at the top right and choose edit networks
2) Click the mobile broadband connection tab
3) I selected Verizon
4) For [...]

I was using Debian to run NTOP and monitor my network. After setting up the port mirror, I realized no traffic was flowing to that ethernet adapter. To allow that adapter to listen to traffic, you need to put it in promiscuous mode. you can do this by putting in: ifconfig ethx promisc where X [...]

Sooner or later you’ll run across Emacs, a text editor in linux. Now how the heck do you copy and paste? [CTRL]+[C] and [CTRL]+[V] doesn’t work..
Go to the first line of text you want to copy/delete and set a mark by pressing press [CTRL]+[SPACEBAR].
Go to the end of the text that you want copied and press [...]