I would like to know which distro would you recommend for this conditions:

- Needs to run in a 2GB USB drive (portable, gonna be plugged mainly on desktops).

- Minimalist approach (the less the better)

- Needs to run Gcc and Gdb (im taking a debugging course)

- runs on OpenBox (prefered) or anything similar to it.

- Easy support for installing programs (auto-dependency and/or a package manager would be great, but not a must)

- speed and responsiveness over beauty.

- Would be mainly for web designing, programming (web and non web) in java, jsp and C/C++

Tiny Core
http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/welcome.html

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Try Porteus. It's optimized to run from USB drives, and it's under 300mb. It includes LXDE which runs on openbox. You'll need to add a few programs to the base in order to do all that you want to. It has a package manager, but not a lot of programs are in the database yet. Good luck!

SliTaz is lightweight, uses Openbox, has a good package manager, and includes the excellent TazUSB utility for installing on a flash drive.

+1 for Tinycore

Or Microcore, or Damn Small Linux.

Puppy Linux has always been my favorite for USB sticks.

Tinycore or SLAX.
--- rod.

"Easy support for installing programs"

This almost limits you to the top distros with your choice of window manager.

I would have suggested slitaz however.

i like the suggestions. and im to look into slitax and porteus.

I mainly gonna run eclipse (with cdt, jdt and Android SDK on it) on that usb.Also gonna use a text editor (Libre office is first choice, but anything that can handle .rtf files.

gonna go check those two