Instead of stripping Ubuntu, what about building up a minimal Debian? Any command-line skills used in development work would transfer over to a more-desktop oriented distribution based in Debian, such as Ubuntu. The "testing" distribution of Debian, despite the name, has always worked well for me, and has the advantage of being basically continuously updated, instead of major 6-month releases like in Ubuntu.
The following probably are not directly comparable, but perhaps not surprisingly they have similar installed footprints. I imagine it would depend on if, and what type, of window manager might be installed Ubuntu JeOS looks to be 380 MB installed: http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/jeos Debian thread has one user getting 350 MB installed size just by unchecking options: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=654374 VMWare virtual appliance with Debian Etch (4.0) at 299 MB: http://www.tuxdistro.com/torrents-details.php?id=206 My $0.02, Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
