Re: linux distro for ratpoison/minimalist config on laptop?

I used to be wary of the kind of 'crud' I would get with most
mainstream distros, and thus used Gentoo to keep a custom,
minimalistic set of software. Eventually Gentoo sort of imploded and I
decided to switch distribution. After trying out some alternatives
like slackware and debian I eventually settled on Ubuntu. Yeah, it has
Gnome and a bunch of extra stuff I didn't use, and I didn't get to
(easily) compile my customized kernel to keep it lean and mean. But at
that point in time, my laptop had enough computational resources that
I decided it didn't really matter. I just installed RP and set it as a
default in gdm and that's it. I could try to get rid of Gnome, but at
most I'd save a couple of GB that I don't really need.
best
Daniel

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Greg Minshall <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi.  i normally run on a Mac (and run rp under Apple's X), but now i'm
> interested in using Linux on a PC laptop.
>
> i don't want a "desktop environment", but do want X in order to run RP,
> emacs, firefox, gnuplot, etc.
>
> i'm a Linux newbie (but BSD oldie).  it seems if i load, e.g., Ubuntu,
> it deals with my hardware (ethernet, wifi, suspend/resume), but comes
> with a plethora of what i assume to be desktop software, stuff i don't
> want.
>
> any suggestion on a distribution, or what i should do post-install to
> get rid of the crud (but maintain the functionality)?
>
> thanks for asking this list, but it seems the most cultural-compatible.
>
> cheers, Greg Minshall
>
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