I figured that as I'm experimenting with GCC and the multi-threading models I might as well use this space to accumulate the references to various on-line materials and my experiences as I plug-away through this.
OK, so this is just an intro post, my next one will be a continually updated ON-LINE REFERENCES post. If anyone has better ideas for aggregating this (I already excluded private blog since I wanted to expose as much of this info as possible in a central/public location, and this forum seemed like the best place to do so).