Here's a
link to a Guide to Installing Red Hat 6.0 on a Thinkpad 600E.
You may also want to check out
Linux on a Laptop, which has links to about every laptop that can run linux.
The video the laptop has is a NeoMagic MagicMedia256AV, which is supported in RH 6.0 and later, I believe.
Browse through the links above, as well as the links off of those pages, and you will find nothing but success stories (and any necessary workarounds/tweaks to maximize performance) for Linux and this Laptop.
Good luck!
Mike
I don't think there would be much change from 6.0 to 6.1,
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