[en] QCD with two flavors of massless color-sextet quarks is considered as a model for conformal/walking technicolor. If this theory possesses an infrared fixed point, as indicated by 2-loop perturbation theory, it is a conformal (unparticle) field theory. If, on the other hand, a chiral condensate forms on the weak-coupling side of this would-be fixed point, the theory remains confining. The only difference between such a theory and regular QCD is that there is a range of momentum scales over which the coupling constant runs very slowly (walks). In this first analysis, we simulate the lattice version of QCD with two flavors of staggered quarks at finite temperatures on lattices of temporal extent N_t=4 and 6. The deconfinement and chiral-symmetry restoration couplings give us a measure of the scales associated with confinement and chiral-symmetry breaking. We find that, in contrast to what is seen with fundamental quarks, these transition couplings are very different. β=6/g² for each of these transitions increases significantly from N_t=4 and N_t=6 as expected for the finite-temperature transitions of an asymptotically free theory. This suggests a walking rather than a conformal behavior, in contrast to what is observed with Wilson quarks. In contrast to what is found for fundamental quarks, the deconfined phase exhibits states in which the Polyakov loop is oriented in the directions of all three cube roots of unity. At very weak coupling the states with complex Polyakov loops undergo a transition to a state with a real, negative Polyakov loop.