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Ubuntu Quietly Raises Install Image Size to 2GB (omgubuntu.co.uk)
Joey-Elijah Sneddon, reporting for OMGUbuntu: You can expect to see a larger Ubuntu desktop installation image by the time the Yakkety Yak yips out. Developers are currently debating the exact size limits that official flavours will adhere to, with some favouring a 2GB hard limit while others are looking to go full-DVD size at 4.7GB+. Canonical's Steven Langasek explains the plans for Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak: "I've finally gone ahead and bumped the limit on Ubuntu desktop images to 2GB for a minimally-sized USB stick; this gives us a new limit that I think we will care about, while also leaving us headroom so we're not constantly fighting it back down to the line." The Ubuntu ISO is supposed to be around the 1GB mark but has creeped past this in recent releases. The current Ubuntu 16.04 LTS desktop .iso is 1.4GB.
Easy solution there. Integrate Esperanto into the installer and make all other languages an available download.
Great, someone's going to approve your idea to add Esperanto (and Klingon/Sindarin/Dothraki) but they'll reject your idea to have the other languages be download-only. Now you've increased the bloat.
Also, N.B. they still offer GUI-less installs and netinstalls.
Which require more than one floppy I assume! BLOAT!
Yakkety Yak.
Don't talk back.