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 2011-12-01 07:47 242 MD5 checksums MD5SUMS-metalink 2011-12-01 07:47 262 MD5 checksums SHA1SUMS 2011-12-01 07:47 274 SHA-1 Hashes SHA256SUMS 2011-12-01 07:47 370 precise-desktop-i386.metalink 2011-12-01 07:47 1.0K Metalink XML file precise-desktop-amd64.metalink 2011-12-01 07:47 1.0K Metalink XML file precise-alternate-i386.metalink 2011-12-01 07:47 1.0K Metalink XML file precise-alternate-amd64.metalink 2011-12-01 07:47 1.0K Metalink XML file precise-desktop-i386.list 2011-11-29 11:58 3.7K precise-desktop-amd64.list 2011-11-29 11:57 4.1K precise-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent 2011-12-01 07:47 27K Torrent file precise-alternate-i386.iso.torrent 2011-12-01 07:47 27K Torrent file precise-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent 2011-12-01 07:47 27K Torrent file precise-desktop-i386.iso.torrent 2011-12-01 07:47 27K Torrent file precise-desktop-amd64.manifest 2011-11-29 11:53 34K precise-desktop-i386.manifest 2011-11-29 11:53 34K precise-alternate-amd64.list 2011-11-29 10:50 98K precise-alternate-i386.list 2011-11-29 10:51 99K precise-alternate-amd64.jigdo 2011-12-01 07:47 137K Jigdo file precise-alternate-i386.jigdo 2011-12-01 07:47 139K Jigdo file precise-alternate-amd64.iso.zsync 2011-11-29 10:51 1.3M zsync control file precise-alternate-i386.iso.zsync 2011-11-29 10:51 1.3M zsync control file precise-desktop-amd64.iso.zsync 2011-11-29 11:58 1.3M zsync control file precise-desktop-i386.iso.zsync 2011-11-29 11:58 1.3M zsync control file precise-alternate-i386.template 2011-11-29 10:51 3.1M precise-alternate-amd64.template 2011-11-29 10:50 3.9M precise-alternate-amd64.iso 2011-11-29 10:50 675M CD image precise-alternate-i386.iso 2011-11-29 10:51 677M CD image precise-desktop-amd64.iso 2011-11-29 11:57 685M CD image precise-desktop-i386.iso 2011-11-29 11:58 689M CD image