I've heard of linuxmint. Heard it comes with the audio and video codecs. The new K3b 1. I thought gnome was the desktop but I see from distrowatch that kde 3.5.6 and xfce 4.4 are available too.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mint
If the mirrors are too slow you can also get it at linuxtracker.
http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-search.php?search=Mint
Looks like a lot of seeders so the download should be fast. I may grab it just to have in the iso library. Thanks for the reminder.

Check this torrent speed out. It's fast.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...linuxmint1.png

Almost done my linuxmint download.

i cant torrent or ftp, i have to use http because my isp only allows about 4 ports

the main desktop is gnome. did you get the new "bianca" version btw? - some links still point to the older versions

sheesh, what kind of ISP is that?

upside is that i get unlimited downloads. mosts isps here have between 1gb/month - 30gb/month limits

ouch
our limits here are measured in hundreds of gbs, so it's practically unlimited downloads. and no port blockage.
but the speeds suck

im on 2mb

Yes. It is LinuxMint 2.2 bianca. The newest, latest. I still have to burn the iso. I was checking out the linuxmint forum first to see if I can install grub to root. Looks like I can.
Downloaded by torrent in 65 minutes I think. It was downloading over two hundred Kb/s but it went as high as 384 Kb/s for a while and as slow as 100 Kb/s. Just over an hour total.