Re: Emacs vista build failures

[Richard M Stallman]

    I've tried several linux distributions. I've never managed to get an
    internet connection.

If what you tried was just Linux, you couldn't manage to type a shell
command.  So they were probably GNU/Linux distributions.

Since GNU/Linux works for so many others, I suspect there was a
problem in installation.  The best way to solve them is to ask an
expert to do it for you.