Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you can do a search on google or on any of the distro's sites for people or businesses that sell Linux distros on CD's for like 5 dollars or whatever the cost of the CD is. Again, I'm not quite sure. Also, I've done some downloading on a 56K before and what I'd do is start it the night before I have to go to work and let it download all night and all day and when I got home from work, it's usually done. At any rate, good luck in your windows -> *nix conversion.