On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Federico Ulfo <rainelemental at gmail.com> wrote: > somebody suggested me Gentoo because of the smaller footprint, You can get a small footprint with pretty much any distro. The key is to only install the minimal set of packages provided by the distribution. You don't need x.org and KDE on EC2. Unless you do, of course.