distro for debug?

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 05/21/2009 04:11 PM, Ben Eisenbraun wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 03:22:21PM -0400, R. Luoma wrote:
>  =20
>> I could use a distribution with no X-windows, but the following:
>>
>>   -  gcc, gdb and the usual (non-graphical) suspects
>>   -  sshd
>>   -  some sort of shell
>>
>> Is there something suitable out there?
>>    =20
>
> The CentOS installer will let you choose the "server" profile and then
> unselect the X-Windows option, and your install will be a basic linux
> machine that defaults to runlevel 3.
>
> You can grab the other bits from yum.
>  =20
You can pretty much do the same thing with Fedora and OpenSuSE. =20
Normally, you can even set the installers to non-graphical.

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