Finally got what I wanted

[jonathonball]

I've been looking for a super stripped down install... nothing but the base system and a display manager; no more bloat.

I think I finally found what I'm looking for.

Got Gentoo up and running in Virtualbox with gnome-light

Nothing to really say about it, just wanted to brag.. no one in my day to day has any idea what in the hell I'm talking about

 

[baldrik]

It's cool. I don't have any idea what you're talking about either.

 

[blinx]

If you want striped down.. you should just run CLI

 

[jonathonball]

If you want striped down.. you should just run CLI

agreed, but i'm migrating back to Linux on my laptop and am going to need the GUI to look at naughty websites in between work and school

 

[nOrVow]

Nice n' Clean!

 

[jonathonball]

Nice n' Clean!

 

[Ion Silverbolt]

Why do you need it to be so slim? (I like it. Just curious) An Arch install would probably do what you want without the compiling.

I like making Gentoo binhosts for minimal installs like that. It saves even more space by not needing compiling libraries on the host machine, and install is much quicker if you use a faster system to make it with. For example, my 6-core phenom2 compiles all my binaries for my e450 apu.

 

[jonathonball]

Why do you need it to be so slim? (I like it. Just curious)

I wanted a quick empty vm that I can spawn a new copy of for anything that comes along. I have this one built and a CLI only version, both include virtualbox-guest-additions. Now that they are built I can fire off a completely new instance in about a minute.

An Arch install would probably do what you want without the compiling.

My co-worked is an Arch fiend that said pretty much the same thing. The compile time isn't so bad if you mount /tmp and /var/portage/tmp as tmpfs. (and use --quiet-build) I went with Gentoo mainly because of it's reputation for being difficult to install and just wanting to learn something new. I'm actually a fan of Debian based distros.