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Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS.
Compared to the DVD-sized downloads for some distributions, the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS mini.iso is only 74 MB.
I prefer using the mini.iso, but they moved it to a legacy directory. You can use the path on their downloads server, which appears to be HTTP only, or you can get an HTTPS connection to download it. Here is an example, from a mirror:
- Directory
- mini.iso, The File Itself
- Checksums, GPG signatures, Files List, Directory
- Checksums [*]
- GPG signatures [*]
- Files List [*]
[*] These are my preferred sources.
Why?
Since they've moved mini.iso to a "legacy" directory, I would guess they plan to discontinue the mini.iso install method sometime in the future?
Fix for a possible problem install:
A user on Reddit experienced a problem in this thread:
"after what seemed to be successful installation, I don't get login prompt at all. Seems everything is loaded, but there is no prompt"
to which a user replied with the apparent fix:
"I fixed it, here's how: even if there's no prompt ALT-F2 works (switching to single-user mode), then you can login, and installed KDE with "sudo apt install kde-plasma-desktop", and next time it booted I got KDE login screen." (this assumes you want KDE Plasma Desktop installed. You could probably substitute this with a different desktop file, or you may not experience the problem in which case these final details are not useful for you.)
BTW, as of this posting date, the locations on Ubuntu's Help/Wiki pages are URLs for older versions of this file, should you seek out more information about the mini.iso files from these areas on their website. Many places across the web are also likely to link you to versions older than 20.04 LTS, with a different directory location/layout.
Please share this information with others, seed via BitTorrent if you want, and enjoy the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS mini.iso (Minimal Install) while the option is still available.
(Score: 2) by gtomorrow on Thursday April 30 2020, @04:23PM (12 children)
Gentlemen, with all due respect, I liked Unity. I seriously could never understand all the hate. Does everything have to use a Win95 paradigm (looking at KDE, Mint, Mate, XFCE, etc.)? I'm really missing it since Ubuntu switched to GNOME. I liked WindowMaker too back in the day.
Who knows where we'd be if Ubuntu hadn't discontinued Mir. Maybe it wouldn't have been the systemd* "all your base" moment we're living in now...?
* I have no opinion whatsoever regarding systemd. Personally it hasn't changed my life for the better nor the worse. Just sayin'...
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday April 30 2020, @04:48PM
The hate was caused by Unity being forced on users. There were "features" that I simply did not want. At the same time, Ubuntu was abandoning Gnome2, and Gnome3 was busily screwing the pooch on it's own. K wasn't looking real good at that point in time. X was being undermined. It appeared that going forward, you joined the Unity, or you left the community altogether.
Mint offered all the good things that Ubuntu was so busily undermining - Cinnamon probably being the best of the lot.
I was perfectly happy with Ubuntu, until Unity. I was very unhappy with Ubuntu when my favorite desktops were pulled.
Of course, my perspective was so very much different from Joe and Jane Average Ubuntu User. Like Danny above, I had cut my *nix teeth on Suse, then went distro hopping. My arrival at Canonical was just another hop, among many. While there, I did convince the wife to try Linux, and she liked it, so I stayed awhile. But, even my wife disliked Unity, so she went back to Windows, and I just moved along.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Thursday April 30 2020, @04:57PM (1 child)
>I liked Unity. I seriously could never understand all the hate.
Changes disrupt workflows. If the change is justified, and mostly if it is optional, then people will not hate it.
Enter UI changes in this millennium: mostly about increasing the difference between my ecosystem and the ones of the competition, so that switching is a hassle. It's the same trick that they used with data formats and protocols, which is not applicable when you are doing linux in a landscape with many free software users and devs.
I'd say even worse, recently it's about ending the concept of personal COMPUTER. The computer is programmable, so we rather give users a LITERAL toy. Apps with options and options but no way to automate and difficult to integrate or to mod.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday April 30 2020, @05:04PM
Before Windows 8, we got the Ribbon interface of Office.
Mircosoft morons: Pull down menus were invented for a reason. To hide dozens (or hundreds) of commands behind minimal screen real estate. Instantly accessible, and easily explored.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday April 30 2020, @05:01PM (8 children)
It's not a Win 95 paradigm. By the time of Win 95 I had already been using this desktop interface for more than a decade.
It's Mac OS (classic). And before that, Apple Lisa.
This desktop interface has been around for almost 40 years. Maybe I'm too set in my ways. Even when the abominations of Windows 8 and Unity were happening, these interfaces had been pretty much universally (Win, Mac, Linux) used for more than 30 years.
It's like if someone suddenly decided automobiles should be driven completely differently. Get rid of the steering wheel for a new steering tiller. The brake and accelerator shouldn't be foot pedals, but should be hand operated controls above the driver's head. Nevermind how everything else already has worked for ages. While we're at it, let's force you into a new keyboard layout so you can no longer type rapidly.
That quote merely reinforces what I'm talking about. (looking at you Ford, Chevy, Honda, Toyota, etc)
Now I love that open source provides the freedom for everyone to scratch their own itch. The level of customization available in most Linux desktops is amazing. And Microsoft and Apple have no doubt taken some note of and copied some features. Developers can even create entirely new UIs.
But don't cry when people flee in droves.
If you've found Unity to be useful to you, then I'm genuinely happy for you. I hope you continue to like it and find it useful.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by gtomorrow on Thursday April 30 2020, @05:23PM (7 children)
Gee, Danny...you're not still mad about that "QUERTY" thing, are you?
Not replying to argue the point (strangely enough 🤣), just here to say...
Didn't think I was merely by saying I liked it and can't understand the hate.
Don't know if you got the memo or not, but Unity is EOL'd...for a while now.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday April 30 2020, @05:32PM
I was never mad. But I guess that doesn't come across in text.
I did NOT get that memo. Interesting. So will they have some kind of graphical interface? I guess I'll have to do some googling.
I find it amusing that when an LTS Ubuntu comes out, everyone is waiting for the versions with a non-Unity desktop.
I didn't mean to imply that YOU were. I suppose some people may have been surprised at the negative reception that it got.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday April 30 2020, @05:35PM (5 children)
Are you referring to Unity being replaced by GNOME 3?
That is just as bad, IMO. Others may have differing opinions.
So recently, I was thinking about doing something I haven't done since the 90's. Trying out some C++ with a GUI framework. Looking on Wikipedia, reading articles, I of course, looked at GTK 3. Even on the normally neutral WP the negativity was detectable.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by gtomorrow on Thursday April 30 2020, @07:53PM (4 children)
Ohhhhhh!!! There's the DannyB I know and love!
IIRC, Unity was EOL'd around Ubuntu 17-something, maybe 18. It's still available as a login choice...but why? It is literally flogging a dead horse. So I'm "stuck" with GNOME 3xx, "Ubuntified." Pity me! 🤣
And although I appreciate in advance the slew of suggestions to follow this comment, "no thank you" to the other DEs, going back to that Win95 paradigm I mentioned before. Hey, that's just me.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday April 30 2020, @09:05PM
I remember reading about Gnome 3 being the replacement. But it is not important to me to remember that fact. They both look exactly the same, as delivered in Ubuntu. So what's really the difference?
The BIG difference is that Ubuntu does not have the UI that everyone has been using for the last three plus decades.
I did try (and mostly succeed) at using it. But I should not have to THINK that much to accomplish basic tasks. Same with Windows 8. Basic things should be reflex muscle memory. So I switch to Xfce because it's light wait.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 1) by petecox on Friday May 01 2020, @08:29AM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by gtomorrow on Friday May 01 2020, @09:57AM (1 child)
Pete, thanks for the link. I was aware of the non-Canonical, continuing development of Unity (Unity8) but wasn't aware of this name-change.
It's also interesting that Ubuntu Touch/Convergence and Mir development are also being continued; I had always thought that both were excellent ideas worth pursuing. IMHO, Touch/Convergence was the only "plan" that seemed to work, as opposed to, say, Microsoft's Win8-Win10 ideas of "convergence", which itself is funny as, with the death of Windows Phone, they gave up on converging anything...except their users' personal data.
Wayland has always seemed to me the "solution looking for a problem." Someone correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Mir development long underway before Wayland?
Two things...is this Lomiri thang actually available for installation? I read almost the entire site and didn't find anything about it other than your linked page. But honestly, I no longer have the inclination for turning my Ubuntu machine inside-out just to beta test an OE.
But thanks again!
(Score: 1) by petecox on Friday May 01 2020, @11:30AM
Ubuntu Touch has been kept alive by volunteers who share your enthusiasm for Convergence. It's seeing something of a renaissance with fresh hardware from Pine64.
NB: I only follow the project loosely; they have a new OTA-12 in 2 weeks that I will flash onto my old Nexus phone.
Lomiri can't be installed on desktop just yet, it's currently being upstreamed to debian [sunweavers.net], which will make it downstream into a future Ubuntu! I guess making it into debian emphasises it's no longer just an Ubuntu-only technology, let alone a Canonical project any longer.
I have no inclination to revisit the flamewars of almost a decade ago but to answer your question, I think Wayland may have predated Mir but Canonical didn't judge suitable for their needs nor mature enough at the time. But now by 2020, Mir dropped its own protocol and implements Wayland, so...