Favorite minimalist distro

[Michael]

What is everyone's favorite small/minimalist Linux distribution?

I think my favorite ought to be Damn Small Linux (DSL) or SLAX.

[Shadewalker]

While I wouldn't go as far as calling Slackware "minimal", you can surely make a minimal install of it. Unchecking X and things that depend on it (KDE, etc.) is a good start. From there you can disable other packages that you'd find redundant, such as the dozen daemons it includes and a bunch of other programs. While this might seem like a hassle to do, I'd definitely prefer that to finding a completely new distro, downloading it, burning it to a CD, installing it and learning/configuring it. I think most distros have the potential to be stripped down and customized.

[Rob Williams]

Though it's not really considered minimal, Gentoo would be my favorite because you start from the bottom and only install what you need. That's minimal enough for me.

[Ethyriel]

I've been all about Arch for the last year or so, but I'm about to trash it until they get past their growing pains (HUGE testing > current migrations).

Frugalware looks like a nice project, I think I'll use it to build LFS. Then I'll be able to criticize the Arch devs with a clear conscience