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Long story short, I am trying to find a pre-made Linux development environment for VirtualBox so I don't have to worry about installing a distro, getting all packages installed, and so forth, since last time I did that it took me a full day to get something that remotely did what I wanted.
I've got a few semi-weird requirements, which doesn't help...
- Preferably SSH only, no slick GUI etc installed, as the laptop host is not endowed with a lot of HD space or RAM. (Which is also why I cannot dual boot, so please do not suggest that option.) I intend to do pretty much all using PuTTy, as it is a workflow I'm already accustomed to.
- Basic gcc, automake etc are all I need.
I really don't care about the distro itself, or the packaging system, or anything else really. I just want to download it, set up some mounts, and be ready to go.
If such a thing doesn't exist, I'd still appreciate suggestions of the best distro to use that will get me to my requirements fastest without a lot of tweaking.
Yeah, Vbox works fine, especially if I tell it to only offer so much memory to the guest OS. The problem with the GUIs is they have a much larger and unneeded footprint on both memory and my HD, and I really want to avoid that. Thanks for the debian-minimal suggestion, if nothing better answer comes up I'll take a close look at it. – Stigma – 2010-10-15T05:53:14.977