Well, easy is not what the origonal poster saught. They wanted to install a Linux *Distro* that wasn't too easy, so that they could begin learning linux, while not wanting it to be too hard. Having something that isn't a pure linux distro (in otherwords not just a firewall only port) limits that learning experience of Linux, while also being far too simple to learn from.

While I agree smoothwall is a killer firewall system, let's not forget the learning process of Linux. Walk before we run