A typical Ubuntu (or any Linux) installation is not just a kernel, it's a bunch of things- a file system, a windows manager, a set of tools and other frameworks. I would like to know what Ubuntu (or any other Linux distro for that matter) is assembled from. Where do I find this information (or alternatively- perhaps someone here could produce the list themselves)?
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Although not Ubuntu specific, reading the documentation from Linux from Scratch is useful in general for learning about how an installation could be built from the ground up.– user76204Nov 24, 2012 at 0:31
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Ubuntu Packages Search: packages.ubuntu.com lets you browse the available packages by category.– Brent BradburnDec 15, 2013 at 22:29
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Simplest method - install Ubuntu, open up the Terminal, and dpkg --get-selections > /tmp/packagelist.txt
. Peruse /tmp/packagelist.txt
at your leisure. If you wonder what any of those things are, apt-cache show packagename
. If that's not enough information, start Googlin'.