slitaz, i used to make a live cd to run GNS3/Dynamips using slax and the need to make it smaller led me to slitaz, once i began using it i ended up learning shell scripting and for a short time was a package maintainer of a few programs,then slowly picked up a little bit of web development, im no expert on it but what i know of linux, i learned due to slitaz.
i started with making custom iso's of slax linux and then moved on to slitaz linux, haven't used any other linux since, ended up learning bash awk, setting up webservers/cgi, compiling pretty much anything out there on the internet, making it a router/firewall etc.
whatever happened, happened for the best, better it happened now than 20 years later in life, you will suffer now though, but you will come out stronger.
when i ordered, i shared my apprehension with the credit card phone, but they wanted only the last 4 numbers to be visible, i blacked out the other numbers with mspaint and sent it across.
i have their 10 euro plan for running tamahatta.com, dont have any traffic but the site has'nt gone down for the last 2 and a half mth. ( which is when i took it)