As part of my ongoing benchmarking of the newly-released Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Linux distribution, today's focus is looking at the high-end Intel Core i9 14900K and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X desktops while comparing the performance across Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu 23.10, and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for dozens of workloads.
Today's Ubuntu 24.04 benchmarking for this 'Noble Numbat' launch day is looking at both the Intel Core i9 14900K and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X desktops while seeing how the performance has evolved since the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release as well as Ubuntu 23.10 as the interim release from six months ago.
In going from Ubuntu 23.10 to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is the upgrade from Linux 6.5 to Linux 6.8, Mesa 23.2 to Mesa 24.0, GNOME 45 to GNOME 46 desktops, and an assortment of other package upgrades.
Following yesterday's Mesa 24.1 feature branching, Mesa 24.2-devel is now open for the Mesa Git mainline code and some early feature work has begun for that Q3 release series.
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has been making significant, much-needed investments into various open-source upstream projects from the GNOME desktop to Rust-written Coreutils and more
The release ISOs for Ubuntu 24.04 'Noble Numbat' are now available! Ubuntu 24.04 is an exciting Long Term Support (LTS) update with this new Linux distribution release being powered by the Linux 6.8 kernel, making use of Netplan for networking on the desktop, features the modernized desktop OS installer, various performance optimizations, and a ton of new features.