Kurgan wrote:
I use a stripped down version (distributed and modified by my university) of Slackware that's modified for low-level programming. Almost no user-space content whatsoever (no GUI, no package manager that does anything for you, etc.), apart from the BASH shell, GCC, Nano, Vim, and the very basics. It would be extremely tedious to use for everyday purposes, but it's still neat to have a distro that does just one thing, but excels at it.
Slackware based distros are one of the few distros (together with Puppy Linux) that has acceptable performance when you boot them live.
You don't really need more than vim and gcc to have fun =D
Do you have possibilities for C++ / C++11 compilation?