Knoppix is excellent for beginning.

The information "don't upgrade knoppix" is not published clear enough, true. It costed me entire weekend to deal with it, and I could have done better things

Community of this forum is warm, nice and one of the best I ever seen in the Internet. Actually this is an only place where I received *answers*.

Yesterday I have installed "Ubuntu 5.10". Everything seems fine. They say Hebrew support has bug in OpenOffice 2.0. I think it will be fixed eventually.