newbie battle over debian, redhat or slackware

[Rob DeZonia]

Hi everyone,

     Have a couple questions.  First is about Debian.  When I go to
the Debian section of the Speakup ftp site, is everything I need to
download for a Debian installation there or do I have to go to the
Debian ftp site to download any other files?
     Now on to Slackware.  First thanks to Joe Norton if he is within
the sound of my synthesizer for the excellent Installing Slackware
tutorial.  When I went to the Slackware ftp site and went to 8.0 there
are about 25 subdirectories of files to download.  Must I download
them all?  That could be quite a job since the average speed has been
about 5K per second. lol
     Which of the 3 flavors I've mentioned has the easiest package
installer?  Thanks for letting me ramble.  I want my first Linux
install to be as painless as possible so that's why all the questions.

          Rob