I don't want to sound negative, or anything, but a computer running Linux isn't exciting in 2003.. (I first installed it around 7 years ago)
Fair enough, but having just installed debian via ftp I can assure you it's a damn sight easier to install now than it was even 1 year ago, particularly with the super-duper ISO Ross Vrumbaca has cooked up.
What worries me is that someone, somewhere, thought it necessary to create a Virtual Richard M Stallman
and include it in the distro. Extremely worrying.