UNIX Newbie seeking help

[Andrew]

Hello,

I'm fairly new to the *nix world but would like to try my hand at 
setting up a stand alone unix box with KDE desktop support. I would also 
like to take a stab at programming and have been searching for languages 
to learn. I was hoping to find something extremely powerful but easy to 
learn and have ran into Walter Bright's D Programming Language 
(http://www.digitalmars.com/d/) and its GCC port 
(http://home.earthlink.net/~dvdfrdmn/d/). Seems to be able to do the trick.

What does all this have to do with you? Well, I was hoping someone would 
point me in the right direction of how to setup DFBSD so that I can 
connect to the internet, and download the KDE desktop and how to the GCC 
version of D. Additionally, I was hoping for some guidance of the best 
way to set up my box I can experience the power of unix with a GUI 
safety net just in case I loose my way.

Thanks for your understanding and support.
Andrew