Nope, it’s not a new distro, it’s an info site that covers all the basics of using Linux written by Internet Tourbus guide Bob Rankin.

So, if you know of anyone just starting to use Linux, or who wants to find out more about it, send them to Bob’s site:

Lowfat Linux.

Here’s a sample from the first heading, “Using Linux - Living in a Shell”:

To use Linux - or any Unix-like system, for that matter - you need to know a few things about shells. A shell is a program that acts as an intermediary between you and the guts of the operating system. In a DOS environment, command.com acts as your shell. Linux shells have more interesting names (like bash, pdksh, and tcsh), but they do pretty much the same thing. In addition to translating your commands into something the kernel can understand and act upon, the shell adds some important functions that the base operating system doesn’t supply.