Before Fedora 8 comes and I'm going to give a serious consideration as wether or not to wipe this computer Windows free (I never dual-boot) despite being dependant on wlan and computer has Broadcom, I'd like to give a shot on something I haven't ever tried. Read on...

I'm looking for a small linux distro to install on a small flash drive. All I need is the common developement tools: vim, sed, gdb, gcc/g++ and libraries Boost included. I hate busybox, DSL would do otherwise. It should be installable so that it doesn't require anything to be installed on hard-drive, not even lilo/grub, because it would be awesome to take the whole project and the enviroment to friends place.

I'm investigating possibility of Puppy, but the documentation is terribly scarce. Thanks in advance!

Slax
--- rod.

according to distrowatch, Slax has no vim.

Zenwalk, it has gcc and vim
Slax would be a good idea too, conisdering you can customize it to have your own modules