[Luineancaion]

Hmmm well I think it'd be good to have a gui tool for each commandline tool, but the commandline is so powerful and much easier than the windows dos thing, with it's great tabbed completition it's so nice and fast :), for a few months I was just using ratpoison (keyboard driven window manager) and the commandline for everything from chat to internet browsing and downloading (keyboard is great, much faster than a mouse for most things).

Neumie I suggest you go and order a ubuntu CD, they ship them for free, ubuntu has become a very popular distrobution, but yea Gentoo is great, there are some guides on doing a stage one install from CD, you could have a look around for them, but if you're on 56k I say just order ubuntu :).... oh actually, if you want a distro similar to gentoo but with faster install then go and get arch, it's damn fast, the initial install CD is 200 meg though I think, if you have a friend that can download it for you, get him to do that. A lot of people actually regard arch as better than gentoo, though it doesn't have an insanely huge repository like gentoo.