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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by wolf550e on Friday April 18, 2014 @08:25AM (#7608896)
You should install http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/localepurge for a leaner install.
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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by bluedino on Friday April 18, 2014 @08:51AM (#7608959)
How much does that really save? A base install of Ubuntu is only around 6-7GB anyway. Very surprised to see it didn't even take up half of the 16GB on an Acer C720 Chromebook.
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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by sandGorgon on Friday April 18, 2014 @02:55PM (#7610659)
my recipe for leaner is more about CPU and RAM and less about diskstorage.

One of the first things I recommend is aptitude over apt-get and that manages your stale packages much better. (for e.g. aptitude will offer to remove unused packages each time you remove an installed package, whereas apt-get will only do that if explicitly asked to with apt-get autoremove.)

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