"Fabio De Dominicis" writes:
> Sorry, the italian message was in the wrong newsgroup.
> My problem is: There are different linux distributions, but I need a
> light-one at following conditions:
> 1) the gui is absolutly not necessary, the command-line interface is
> sufficient
> 2) I don't need audio, internet, firewall, games, word processing
> applications, databases application, e-mail managing. I just need the c/c++
> compiler in order to develop and compile c/c++ apps in linux.
> 3) Then, I need the possibility to use ssh or telnet, for a remote shell.
> So the functionalities I require are few, but current distributions are
> quite at least 1 gb.
> I need a minimum linux distribution, to develop in c/c++, doing it via
> remote shell.
> How can I choose? What do you think about?

This depends on how much effort you plan to put into it (eg put the
system together from source manually, only adding what you consider to
be useful for some reason). What I would do is start with minimal
Debian install, ie only the base system and no additional packages
whatsoever, and use the 'package management tool you feel comfortable
with' (which is apt-get for me) to add more software as needed.

NB: That's a way I consider to be reasonably comfortable and
reasonably 'good' at achieving the intended result.

On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 21:36 +0100, Fabio De Dominicis wrote:
> Sorry, the italian message was in the wrong newsgroup.
> My problem is: There are different linux distributions, but I need a
> light-one at following conditions:
> 1) the gui is absolutly not necessary, the command-line interface is
> sufficient
> 2) I don't need audio, internet, firewall, games, word processing
> applications, databases application, e-mail managing. I just need the c/c++
> compiler in order to develop and compile c/c++ apps in linux.
> 3) Then, I need the possibility to use ssh or telnet, for a remote shell..
> So the functionalities I require are few, but current distributions are
> quite at least 1 gb.
> I need a minimum linux distribution, to develop in c/c++, doing it via
> remote shell.
> How can I choose? What do you think about?
> Thanks in advance,
>
> --
> Fabio De Dominicis
>
>

I'd go for a Debian Lenny install. The basic install is pretty small
(about 250MB):

http://www.debian.org/releases/stabl...apds02.html.en

...and it's flexible so you can build on it, add and remove as you please
using APT.

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