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The best Linux distro, again is down to personal opinions.
Frankly, if you have to ask someone for a link to Fedora or CentOS rather than do a quick search using your favourite search engine then your going to struggle to be productive with Linux. Go, research Linux for a bit, download a few distros and try them out and then go from there.
You are spending a lot of energy thrashing around with random questions. Pick any distribution at random, install it and use it for a while---then you will be asking much better questions.
I infer that you are not in a position to download and make an install CD...If so, the two easiest ways are to:
1. Order a CD from Ubuntu--they even pay the shipping
2. Get a CD packaged with a magazine like Linux Format
Tell us where you are, and there might be more ideas
More generally, there are companies the sell (cheap) all manner of CDs and DVDs for various distros. Google: "Linux CD"
okkk i already had intalled redhat.... which i downloaded but crashed and wouldnt reinstall...i couldnt find any place that had some of the good linux os but i went there i downloaded the suse and it was the 64-bit instead of the 32bit i am readownloading and puting it on a disk (yes im puttingit on a disk im not stupid, i know how to burn images) i have 2 comps and one im not using (amd 1400 ,512md ,radeaon 9200.....so i wnated to try a new O.s maybe even get to host a Website (which i see linux is popular for)
ok/...i intalled suse...then when i booted it up it was all glitchy i couldnt see mouse {it was invisible) but it was there and the resolution was messed up ...so i intalled it again and i skiped hardware config and i was gonna do that later this time it worked but its hard....i need to get my vid card driver intalled but im suppoce to turn the x server off before this how is this possible?
my comp info
Memory (RAM)
Capacity: 512 MB
Processor
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
Version: x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 1
Speed: 1679 MHz
Video Card
Model: NVIDIA GeForce 6600
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