Linux distro for C development on a thumbdrive

hellrazor · Jul 13, 2012

I'm thinking of going back to working with/learning C, and I hate doing it on Windows, so I was wondering if anybody knows a good distro I can shove on an old (4GB) thumbdrive? I'd like it a bit small (the thumbdrive is a bit slow) and to not look like shit *coughpuppycough*.

berwick53 · Jul 13, 2012

hellrazor said:
I'm thinking of going back to working with/learning C, and I hate doing it on Windows, so I was wondering if anybody knows a good distro I can shove on an old (4GB) thumbdrive? I'd like it a bit small (the thumbdrive is a bit slow) and to not look like shit *coughpuppycough*.

What things are you going to be doing in C? Because I find that I only really ever use C for embedded systems when I'm not using VHDL, or really low level operations when I can't be bothered to use Assembly.

hellrazor · Jul 13, 2012

Fooling around until I get good with it.

lindy · Jul 14, 2012

On a 4Gb thumbdrive?... Give Puppy Linux a go though I don't think it installs GCC by default, but there again I don't think that too many of live CD distro's do either. As a live CD Puppy has the advantage of loading as a ramdisk so it'll be fast, and to free up the optical drive.

T3RM1N4L D0GM4 · Jul 22, 2012

May be Debian + LXDE?

Network install and a lightweight desktop environment and you are ready to go

Peter1986C · Jul 23, 2012

^ This.

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