We will probably see bigger ones pictures ISO, with the next official release of Ubuntu Yakkety Yak later this year.
Ubuntu Developers are reportedly currently discussing changing the main size limit image distribution, as well as those of the distribution's official flavors.
Ubuntu Studio, for example, plans to increase the size of the installation image to the full size of a 4.7GB DVD. So it can offer a wider range of out-of-the-box software.
Why larger ISO images?
1GB, the current Ubuntu size limit, no longer applies, as recent releases are always larger. The current ISO image of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS desktop is 1.4GB, and in some flavors the size is even larger.
Oversized images are quite annoying for people with slow connections. These people annoy programmers everyday, like explains Steven Langasek of Canonical:
“[Oversized images] produce too many every day messages electronics post officeto the members of the development team and the cdimage team, who we then basically do not follow.”
Langasek continues:
"We will raise the limit for Ubuntu desktop images to 2GB. "
These planned changes will not affect the size of other Ubuntu images, eg minimal, server, net install, etc.
If the size limit of the next Ubuntu 16.10 eventually reaches 2GB this does not mean that ISO will actually be 2GB. The increase in space will offer developers space but will not give them permission to add bloatware.
