Lightweight Ubuntu

Posted by Nick Berardi on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Nick Berardi
Published on 2011-03-05T14:50:57Z Indexed on 2011/03/05 15:32 UTC
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Just to start off, I know of lubuntu but it really doesn't meet what I am looking for. Basically what I am looking for is the standard Desktop Ubuntu install, but with out all the word processing, multimedia, and games installed.

I have seen posts out about how to get the desktop environment running on Ubuntu server, but they seem complicated, and never seem to equal the standard Desktop install.

So my question is, is there anyway to tell the standard Desktop install not to install all the applications? Or is there a distro available that leaves all the applications out, and just has the standard desktop look and feel?

What I really want this for is, is for development purposes to run on a VM to do Mono development.

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