Select an image
Xubuntu is distributed on two types of images described below.
Desktop CD
The desktop CD allows you to try Xubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option to install it permanently later. This type of CD is what most people will want to use. You will need at least 192MiB of RAM to install from this CD.
There are two images available, each for a different type of computer:
- PC (Intel x86) desktop CD
- For almost all PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows, as well as newer Apple Macintosh systems based on Intel processors. Choose this if you are at all unsure.
- 64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop CD
- Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the Intel x86 images instead.
Alternate install CD
The alternate install CD allows you to perform certain specialist installations of Xubuntu. It provides for the following situations:
- setting up automated deployments;
- upgrading from older installations without network access;
- LVM and/or RAID partitioning;
- installs on systems with less than about 192MiB of RAM (although note that low-memory systems may not be able to run a full desktop environment reasonably).
In the event that you encounter a bug using the alternate installer, please file a bug on the debian-installer package.
There are two images available, each for a different type of computer:
- PC (Intel x86) alternate install CD
- For almost all PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows, as well as newer Apple Macintosh systems based on Intel processors. Choose this if you are at all unsure.
- 64-bit PC (AMD64) alternate install CD
- Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the Intel x86 images instead.
A full list of available files, including BitTorrent files, can be found below.
If you need help burning these images to disk, see the CD Burning Guide.
Name Last modified Size Description
Parent Directory - MD5SUMS 2012-06-28 13:21 242 MD5 checksums MD5SUMS-metalink 2012-06-28 13:21 262 MD5 checksums SHA1SUMS 2012-06-28 13:21 274 SHA-1 Hashes SHA256SUMS 2012-06-28 13:21 370 quantal-alternate-amd64.iso 2012-06-26 05:57 704M CD image quantal-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent 2012-06-28 13:21 28K Torrent file quantal-alternate-amd64.iso.zsync 2012-06-26 05:59 1.4M zsync control file quantal-alternate-amd64.jigdo 2012-06-28 13:21 142K Jigdo file quantal-alternate-amd64.list 2012-06-26 05:57 102K quantal-alternate-amd64.metalink 2012-06-28 13:21 1.0K Metalink XML file quantal-alternate-amd64.template 2012-06-26 05:57 4.9M quantal-alternate-i386.iso 2012-06-26 05:59 697M CD image quantal-alternate-i386.iso.torrent 2012-06-28 13:21 27K Torrent file quantal-alternate-i386.iso.zsync 2012-06-26 05:59 1.4M zsync control file quantal-alternate-i386.jigdo 2012-06-28 13:21 141K Jigdo file quantal-alternate-i386.list 2012-06-26 05:59 100K quantal-alternate-i386.metalink 2012-06-28 13:21 1.0K Metalink XML file quantal-alternate-i386.template 2012-06-26 05:59 4.2M quantal-desktop-amd64.iso 2012-06-26 06:17 724M CD image quantal-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent 2012-06-28 13:21 29K Torrent file quantal-desktop-amd64.iso.zsync 2012-06-26 06:18 1.4M zsync control file quantal-desktop-amd64.list 2012-06-26 06:17 4.4K quantal-desktop-amd64.manifest 2012-06-26 06:11 38K quantal-desktop-amd64.metalink 2012-06-28 13:21 1.0K Metalink XML file quantal-desktop-i386.iso 2012-06-26 06:18 708M CD image quantal-desktop-i386.iso.torrent 2012-06-28 13:21 28K Torrent file quantal-desktop-i386.iso.zsync 2012-06-26 06:18 1.4M zsync control file quantal-desktop-i386.list 2012-06-26 06:18 3.8K quantal-desktop-i386.manifest 2012-06-26 06:12 38K quantal-desktop-i386.metalink 2012-06-28 13:21 1.0K Metalink XML file