Portage is a good thing. However, Gentoo is not exactly the most newbie-friendly distro. If you want to poke around, try Knoppix, which runs completely off of a CD, meaning you can run it on a Windows machine without harming the windows install, or Mandrake. Red Hat (now Fedora) is also a good distro to play around with if you have a dedicated machine to install them to.
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