Highly Compressed 10mb ((new)): Ubuntu

There are legitimate ultra-small Linux distributions that run in , but they are not Ubuntu . Examples include:

: The "Core" version is only 17MB and provides a basic command-line system. ubuntu highly compressed 10mb

Normal Ubuntu ISOs use gzip or lzma. You can re-compress the squashfs root filesystem using: You can re-compress the squashfs root filesystem using:

If you are building a custom kernel or rootfs, use the strip command on all executable files to remove debugging symbols, which can drastically reduce size. ubuntu highly compressed 10mb

If you already have Ubuntu installed and it feels "heavy," you can speed it up by:

mksquashfs ubuntu_root/ ubuntu.squashfs -comp xz -Xdict-size 1M -b 1M

You can speed up a standard installation by using lightweight window managers like i3 or Openbox , which use far less RAM and CPU than the default GNOME environment.