With the sizes of modern storage devices, the savings aren't all that great, but this minimal option may appease those wanting a slightly less bloated desktop with less package updates to worry about, less clutter in GNOME Shell, etc. So roughly 400MB in savings for the current form of this "minimal" desktop option.
#Ubuntu download minimal install
Firefox, Nautilus, Ubuntu Software, and Help remain.Ībove is a look at more of the applications dropped from carrying out a minimal Ubuntu desktop installation.Īs far as the savings go, the stock Ubuntu 18.04 LTS daily installation today occupied 5.8GB on disk installed while the minimal install after wiping the disk came in at 5.4GB. But the Ubuntu Amazon icon does remain in the minimal install. Though with the icons on the left side you lose LibreOffice being installed by default as well as Rhythmbox. It's still powered by GNOME Shell and looks much the same as a stock Ubuntu 18.04 environment. I decided to try that from today's Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic daily installation media to compare to an otherwise stock installation.Ībove is a look at the freshly installed Ubuntu minimal desktop. Rather, the desktop minimal installation is advertised as only installing "a minimal desktop environment with a browser and utilities." You might search for some specialized distro that. All major distros cant be installed on 100 MB, theyre not meant for that. A minimal installation of Ubuntu 14.04 uses roughly 360Mb of space - 125mb just for the kernel and its modules and the rest for the base system.
![ubuntu download minimal ubuntu download minimal](https://linuxconfig.org/images/10-ubuntu-20-04-download.png)
The minimal installation option from the Ubuntu 18.04 Ubiquity installer isn't to be confused with the lightweight Ubuntu minimal spin for containers and building your Ubuntu stack from scratch. Unfortunately you cant have an Ubuntu system that uses less than 100mb. The closest equivalent I see for the functionality/purpose I care about (tiny download, includes kernel, deb based) is the Netboot-using-PXE, Folks who dont like PXE can use the 18.04/19.10 minimal and dist-upgrade it. If its bare metal, depends upon the size and architecture. Here's a look at what that means for desktop users. Depends upon if its bare metal or a container/VM.
![ubuntu download minimal ubuntu download minimal](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/fitted/620x348/hands-on-with-ubuntu-s-new-minimal-installation-feature-in-ubuntu-18-04-lts.jpg)
Besides the Ubuntu 18.04 minimal spin that is around to 30MB compressed, the Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic Beaver" installer recently added an option for a "minimal installation" from the desktop Live DVD/USB environment.