Linspire is fine if you have money to burn but Slackware is totally free. You will have to set the run level if you want to boot to a gui, but is more functional than linspire which charges a monthly fee for their download service.
Free Linspire
Download from www.linspire.com. Apply coupon- JDSWelcome. Its an .iso file. Burn it to a cd. and you can boot from there. theres no actual installation if you just want to try it. Offer up to Sept.6, i think.

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