Ubuntu flavors installer sizes
Flavors described as “full” or “complete” have square marks. Flavors described as “light” have triangle marks. Flavors described as neither have circle marks.
Notes:
- The installer size is, of course, a limited metric of lightness.
- I’ve always heard of Lubuntu as the really light one, but it has grown larger than Xubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, and Ubuntu MATE. In 18.10 they switched to LXQt, dunno if that had anything to do with it.
- Ubuntu switched to GNOME in 17.10, so the Ubuntu GNOME stopped being a flavor.
- Earlier releases mostly didn’t go below around 730 MB. Was this to avoid wasting space on a CD? Wikipedia confirms you can fit 700 MiB (~734 MB) on a CD.
- The Ubuntu GNOME installer sizes were eerily similar to the Xubuntu installer sizes. The samples I used for their 16.04 releases were both exactly 1,389,789,184 bytes.
- Canonical Ltd. is a British company, so I suppose they’re really flavours.
Methodology details:
- LTS releases only, at the latest point release I could find.
- AMD64 architecture, “desktop” variant in cases where there are variants.
- Data is from Ubuntu releases, Wayback Machine, and other sources.
- Would have been nice to plot GiB (2^30), but Google Sheets make it much easier to do GB (10^9).
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