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Ubuntu's Great Year From 24.04 LTS To Focusing More On Performance Optimizations
From my independent monitoring, Ubuntu Linux had a pretty great year
As of this past week the change is now in place for Ubuntu 24.10 daily users that will find Wayland-by-default when using the official NVIDIA Linux graphics driver. With this being the first post-LTS release following last month's Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support, they are more free to innovate this cycle and they have a lot of great plans for enhancing the Linux desktop experience. Ubuntu Blog Talks Up Rust Schedulers, Potential For Micro-Kernel Design Future Ubuntu/Canonical has for a while now promoted the prospects of Rust programming within the Linux kernel and one of their kernel engineers, Andrea Righi, wrote a Rust-written Linux scheduler with promising results that leverages eBPF for dynamically loading it at run-time.
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