ArmyOfOne:

I'm talking about the off-the-shelf distros which come with all the gui's, progs, etc. and have 3+ cds (that's about 2 gigs at the least, so downloading all that stuff would be a pain). If you're downloading it, get Red Hat.

sorry about not clarifying. inform me if anything was wrong, since i haven't ever downloaded an os, except for freebsd to put on the pentium 386 in the corner