In last year's "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?", we noticed a common request for a "lighter, smaller, more minimal" Ubuntu image.
To date, we've shaved the Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS minimal images down by over 53%, since Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and trimmed nearly 100 packages and thousands of files -- currently sitting at 30MB compressed. We have 2.5 months left in the 18.04 LTS cycle. Can the HackerNews crowd help us find any more savings?
Feedback welcome in the HN comments below, or the Google Forms survey here:
- https://ubu.one/imgSurvey
More detailed post at:
- http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2018/02/rfc-ubuntu-1804-lts-minimal-images.html
On behalf of the Ubuntu team, @DustinKirkland VP Product, Canonical