http://www.blackdiamondpestcontrol.com/linuxlaptop.htm

Looks like all components of my notebook are covered (in an older version of Fedora at least).. Cannot find anything directly relevant to Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Opensuse or otherwise but I assume since the Linux kernel is shared I should be just fine with any of them.

Now I just need to know which file system to use (I am guessing ext4) in formatting the partitions and if any of the distros have trouble in multiboot system.

Anyone have some experience in this regard?