Thank you very much! It looks like exactly the thing I need!
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Sorry, I forgot to mention what phone he has. I'm pretty sure he has a Nokia e61i. If there was something that could run on the Symbian OS, that'd be great. I had been too focused on the laptop to think about making life easier on the phone side- good point.

I know that I have installed steam and Team Fortress 2 with wine in the past. I recently bought the Orange Box via Steam, but haven't had the free time to install and test the games recently.

I would heartily suggest reading the Steam, Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike 1.6 and Source with Wine HOWTO, which is located at linux-gamers.net.

Does anyone have suggestions for applications that ease the complication of "tethering" cellular phones to laptops for Internet access? I provide volunteer tech support for a guy that often travels to Kenya and India, and he was able to tether his cell phone and access the Internet in previous trips with a different Redmond based OS, but struggled to get the phone to connect to his Asus eee 901 running Ubuntu-eee 8.04. I understand that the OS is older, and I am hoping for suggestions on newer netbook distros that streamline this process instead of requiring manually edited wvdial.conf files and the like. The user of this laptop is relatively new to Linux, and I will not be in Kenya or India with him when he attempts to access the internet via 3G and 4G networks.
Thanks!

Seems like fun. I'll download and install it. I might see you on the server soon!