Ubuntu without pre-installed software?

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2012/9/18 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
> On 18 September 2012 18:02, Pongo Pan <pongo_pan at fastmail.us> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 17:32 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>> <snipped>
>>>
>>> As for a minimal, customisable Ubuntu - well, the netinst ISO is a
>>> good suggestion. Failing that, there is Debian! :¬)
>>>
>>
>> Or Bodhi, which has the surprisingly light and very customizable E17
>> desktop, is based on Ubuntu 12.04 and installs almost nothing beyond the
>> OS and the desktop.  The 64 bit iso is only 561.4 MiB.  You can lard it
>> up or not as you like.  Artistic people (not me!) do beautiful or weird
>> or starkly plain and simple things with E17.  Works very well for me on
>> an old laptop I use when traveling.  I used to use CrunchBang for this:
>> based directly on Debian and very stark and simple by design.  I found
>> the black and whiteness headache provoking in the long run.
>>
>> There are lots of choices.
>
> Bodhi is OK. I salute & commend them for doing something a little
> different, although to my jaundiced eye, the allegedly-beautiful E17
> desktop really is not all that. None of the themes strike me as
> particularly attractive.
>
> A default installation of Mac OS X looks better than any of Bodhi's
> themes to me, and nothing has ever beaten the austere beauty of
> NeXTStep, not even its own progeny.
>
> Which is odd, as just looking at people's desktop screenshots, I've
> seen some /stunning/ Linux desktops.
>
> But anyway. I've tried Bodhi, and Crunchbang, yes. Bodhi is quite
> minimal, yes, but it does rather force your hand in terms of window
> manager. Crunchbang is not minimal, it's quite complete, but it too
> has strong opinions about how things should be done. Not bad ones - I
> rather like it - but it is, shall we say, emphatic.
>
> The point of using an Ubuntu netinst CD, or of using Debian, is that
> *you can choose everything* if you so desire. You get to choose your
> own window manager or desktop and all your own apps, which seems to be
> what Johnny R wants. Bodhi, #! and so on do not permit this.

Yes, I think so too. Going to try the netinstall next time I install
Ubuntu. Probably pretty soon, as I'm going to replace Xubuntu (which I
don't like at all) on my Eee-PC.


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ

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