Are there any plans to create an ubuntu-server or equivalent stripped down version of the L4T distribution? For our products, we flash L4T on the device and subsequently install ubuntu-server while deinstalling ubuntu-desktop. We would like to install ubuntu-server directly. We looked into making an image to flash of our own, but this seems tedious. Also upgrading this image would not be trivial.
I have not heard of any such plans (which doesn’t mean a plan doesn’t exist). One approach is that if you have a modified file system, then you can clone it, and use the clone for flashing other systems. Loopback mounted clones can be updated with standard mechanism, e.g., another clone, or else rsync.