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Ubuntu 24.10 Desktop To Ship With Sysprof Profiler Pre-Installed
Following Canonical's decision to enable frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and then they ended up adding a number of performance tools to ship by default with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, for Ubuntu 24.10 a late change is adding another tool to be installed by default on the Ubuntu desktop: Sysprof.
Given that it's late in the cycle, Sysprof app in the default Ubuntu installation also had to go the route of a feature freeze exception. This is part of a distro-wide Performance Engineering effort discussed in various places such as https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-performance-engineering-with-frame-pointers-by-default For clarification, this change is for both the default and full installation options. So with Ubuntu Desktop 24.10 you will have Sysprof available out of the box to do any system-wide performance profiling if you're interested but have been held up by it not being installed out-of-the-box...About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.
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