Ill echo the Gentoo or Debian. You may want to try installing Debian from Knoppix--knoppix is nothing more than Debian on a CD and has a nice autoinstaller that is much easier than the CLI based Debian one.
The gentoo install really isnt *that* bad and will teach you a lot. The documentation on their site is exceptional--read through it, if it looks like you can do it based on reading the docs, you probably can.
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