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That’s a fair bit smaller than I’d expect honestly. I’m surprised it’s not using more than that with the basic apps installed.

by dpark 9y ago

CydeWeys 9y ago
There's plenty of serious Linux distros that still ship on a single CD. Arch Linux, for example, comes on a 522 MB ISO. That gets you a basic functional desktop environment, and anything else you might need can be installed from the Net.
- dpark 9y ago
  Interestingly, Ubuntu requires 25 GB. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequire... So consumer-oriented distros don't seem to be nearly so much lighter than Windows. With the caveat that Ubuntu probably comes preloaded with more apps like Libre Office.
  - CydeWeys 9y ago
    A decent amount of that space ends up being on-disk swap for the RAM, for what it's worth. And note that, on that same page, Xubuntu and Lubuntu are offered up as alternatives for less performant computers. They only require 5 GB of space. Windows doesn't have a light version like that.
  - pletnes 9y ago
    That still leaves plenty of space for additional apps and data. Also you can uninstall e.g. Libreoffice post-install to slim it down.
  - vetinari 9y ago
    That's probably just a CYA requirement. I have 17.10 in a VM and it takes 8,7 GB on the disk, with a few extra apps compared to default install.
  - Izkata 9y ago
    That's probably more generous than necessary. I just installed Ubuntu 16.04 a month ago (new laptop), and with /home/ on its own partition, after installing everything I use regularly, root is only using 9.3G
- majewsky 9y ago
  There is no desktop on the 522 MB Arch Linux ISO, or if there is, I've never seen it. It boots into a root shell on tty1, and is only supposed to be used for installation. I would be very surprised to even find an X server in there. EDIT: For a more realistic number, I just checked my Arch-Linux-based home server, which has a fairly small installation (including some multimedia and X11 stuff for PulseAudio, mpd and youtube-dl, though). Needs just over 2 GiB for the entire system and applications: df / -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc2 110G 2,2G 103G 3% / Of course, you should have some breathing room, but usually not more than 8 GiB on a server, and maybe 16 GiB on a desktop.

That’s a fair bit smaller than I’d expect honestly. I’m surprised it’s not using more than that with the basic apps installed.

by dpark 9y ago

That’s a fair bit smaller than I’d expect honestly. I’m surprised it’s not using more than that with the basic apps installed.

CydeWeys 9y ago

There's plenty of serious Linux distros that still ship on a single CD. Arch Linux, for example, comes on a 522 MB ISO. That gets you a basic functional desktop environment, and anything else you might need can be installed from the Net.

dpark 9y ago
Interestingly, Ubuntu requires 25 GB. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequire... So consumer-oriented distros don't seem to be nearly so much lighter than Windows. With the caveat that Ubuntu probably comes preloaded with more apps like Libre Office.
- CydeWeys 9y ago
  A decent amount of that space ends up being on-disk swap for the RAM, for what it's worth. And note that, on that same page, Xubuntu and Lubuntu are offered up as alternatives for less performant computers. They only require 5 GB of space. Windows doesn't have a light version like that.
- pletnes 9y ago
  That still leaves plenty of space for additional apps and data. Also you can uninstall e.g. Libreoffice post-install to slim it down.
- vetinari 9y ago
  That's probably just a CYA requirement. I have 17.10 in a VM and it takes 8,7 GB on the disk, with a few extra apps compared to default install.
- Izkata 9y ago
  That's probably more generous than necessary. I just installed Ubuntu 16.04 a month ago (new laptop), and with /home/ on its own partition, after installing everything I use regularly, root is only using 9.3G
majewsky 9y ago
There is no desktop on the 522 MB Arch Linux ISO, or if there is, I've never seen it. It boots into a root shell on tty1, and is only supposed to be used for installation. I would be very surprised to even find an X server in there. EDIT: For a more realistic number, I just checked my Arch-Linux-based home server, which has a fairly small installation (including some multimedia and X11 stuff for PulseAudio, mpd and youtube-dl, though). Needs just over 2 GiB for the entire system and applications: df / -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc2 110G 2,2G 103G 3% / Of course, you should have some breathing room, but usually not more than 8 GiB on a server, and maybe 16 GiB on a desktop.