Totally lost and confused

[Chris Schulte]

Hi all,
I sent this message to the newbie list, but seeing as how there's more
trafic on this list I'll post it here as well.

I've been waiting for a while to put linux on my system, and am now hearing
that as a new user, redhat is probably not the way to go.  Just based on the
discussions I've seen, and some tips from a friend, I am thinking that
debian is probably better for a new user.  So I am on the debian site, and
I'm seeing all of these things about potatoes and stable and am totally lost
and cunfused as to which I should download, and for that matter if I'm even
in the right directory on the ftp site.  Please help?
Tnx in advance,
Chris