The new version of Ubuntu AIO DVD has received UEFI support

Jun 12, 2014 13:02 GMT  ·  By

Ubuntu AIO DVD (all-in-one), a collection of the most important Ubuntu 14.04 LTS flavors made available on April 17, 2014, has just received UEFI support.

We wrote a while back about this interesting collection of Ubuntu operating systems from the 14.04 LTS release and numerous users expressed their interest in downloading and trying Ubuntu AIO DVD.

There was a problem though. Users couldn't get it to work on systems that have UEFI, which turned out to be quite annoying. Fortunately, this problem has been fixed now and users can now employ this DVD on systems that have UEFI on the motherboard.

“I just want to say that I started this as trying to find a way to adapt what you had already done to UEFI, and decided that, instead of doing it for selfish reasons and keep it to myself, why not contribute back to the community? It just made sense to me to make it available for everyone,” said Erich Eickmeyer, who made this ISO possible.

Canonical released its latest Ubuntu 14.04 LTS distribution back in April, and along with it all the other famous flavors were also offered. The problem is that all the distros that have been provided to the community come as separate entities. This means different ISOs, different DVDs, and so on.

The Ubuntu AIO DVD was originally put together by Milan Rajčić and helps users have all the major Ubuntu spins on a single DVD: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Kubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu GNOME 14.04, Xubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Lubuntu 14.04 LTS.

There were some problems with the DVD collection right from the start. It turns out that users could actually get it to fit onto an actual DVD, but that problem has been corrected.

Also, you have to keep in mind that not all the releases made by Canonical have been integrated, because it would have been impossible. That's why some choices needed to be made and only the most used flavors have been featured, and Ubuntu Server, Edubuntu, Mythbuntu, and Ubuntu Studio have been skipped.

Also, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Ubuntu GNOME support only the 64-bit version, and Xubuntu and Lubuntu are only present in the 32-bit release. There is a separate 32-bit release that integrates only the flavors for this architecture.

If you are not familiar with the official Ubuntu flavors, here is a rundown: Ubuntu is the base operating system developed by Canonical and comes with the Unity desktop environment, a piece of software made by the same developers.

You can download the Ubuntu AIO DVD right now from Softpedia.