Intel & Canonical Collaborate On Graphics Preview Stack For Ubuntu 24.10

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel & Canonical Collaborate On Graphics Preview Stack For Ubuntu 24.10

Intel and Canonical have been collaborating to provide an early "Graphics Preview" stack for Ubuntu 24.10 to provide better support for the new Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" and Intel Arc B-Series "Battlemage" graphics...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Gfx-Preview-Ubuntu-24.10

[hamishmb]

Good to see this happening, but I feel it's a shame that these things are often in partnership with Canonical, instead of a more community-focused group.

I don't like where Canonical is going with snap, so I switched from Linux Mint to LMDE recently.

[Jumbotron]

Good to see this happening, but I feel it's a shame that these things are often in partnership with Canonical, instead of a more community-focused group.

I don't like where Canonical is going with snap, so I switched from Linux Mint to LMDE recently.

Why is it a shame that it’s Canonical ? Who does a better job of shipping a better Linux experience out of the box for most people amongst the Big Three, Red Hat, Suse and Canonical ? Another question is why didn’t Intel choose to debut this with Red Hat or Suse ? Willingness on their part ? Or Canonical is better able to be a partner ? Intel is a mega-corp with a product to push. They’re not going to go and partner with Arch or Mint or Slackware for the good of the community .

[woddy]

But they created a ppa with extra support for this hardware just for testing purposes.
Where is the news ?

This repository is a preview that does not come with the same guarantees as the Ubuntu archives, is intended for testing and validation purposes only, and is not recommended for use in production environments.

[Zorglubis]

Why is it a shame that it’s Canonical ? Who does a better job of shipping a better Linux experience out of the box for most people amongst the Big Three, Red Hat, Suse and Canonical ? Another question is why didn’t Intel choose to debut this with Red Hat or Suse ? Willingness on their part ? Or Canonical is better able to be a partner ? Intel is a mega-corp with a product to push. They’re not going to go and partner with Arch or Mint or Slackware for the good of the community .

They did not choose Fedora or Suse because those distros already ship an up to date kernel and Mesa stack. They need to work with Canonical because Ubuntu is lagging behind, and as it's very popular, they do not want their card to get a bad reputation when Ubuntu users buy them.

[geerge]

Why is it a shame that it’s Canonical ? Who does a better job of shipping a better Linux experience out of the box for most people amongst the Big Three, Red Hat, Suse and Canonical ? Another question is why didn’t Intel choose to debut this with Red Hat or Suse ? Willingness on their part ? Or Canonical is better able to be a partner ? Intel is a mega-corp with a product to push. They’re not going to go and partner with Arch or Mint or Slackware for the good of the community .

Red Hat. Ubuntu just has the numbers.

[Espionage724]

Good to see this happening, but I feel it's a shame that these things are often in partnership with Canonical, instead of a more community-focused group.

I don't like where Canonical is going with snap, so I switched from Linux Mint to LMDE recently.

I prefer Snaps on Ubuntu over Flatpaks anywhere else (including my favorite distro Fedora). I started out on Ubuntu, and feel they still today provide the best desktop experience. Them doing Snaps isn't a light decision, them still doing it implies it's working, and even though I absolutely can't stand most abstraction (Proton, Lutris, Wayland, libinput, Docker/containers, immutable/Atomic, Flatpak), I don't have anything negative with Ubuntu and Snaps.

I used Snaps with Ubuntu early, experienced the slow Firefox start-up, but either dealt with it or switched to non-Snap (was a brief install before back to Fedora ). I thought the graphics driver switch with Steam Snap was cool! (oibaf/kisak/default, but just with Steam and not system-wide PPA).

I still can install most of my stuff as non-Snap on Ubuntu, and afaik default Minimal only includes Firefox as a Snap. I last used Ubuntu 24.10 and everything was fine. I still entertain Ubuntu for set-ups I want everything working with little-to-no nonsense, and high-end gaming is Ubuntu + Liquorix or XanMod.

Overall, I'm cool with the news

Edit: I'm on 24.10 now and everything looks good! I only notice Firefox as a Snap, and it works snappy no problem.

[Britoid]

Why is it a shame that it’s Canonical ? Who does a better job of shipping a better Linux experience out of the box for most people amongst the Big Three, Red Hat, Suse and Canonical ? Another question is why didn’t Intel choose to debut this with Red Hat or Suse ? Willingness on their part ? Or Canonical is better able to be a partner ? Intel is a mega-corp with a product to push. They’re not going to go and partner with Arch or Mint or Slackware for the good of the community .

Eh, RHEL is a decade ahead of Ubuntu/Debian when it comes to the server stack.

If you want to see what open source software will be in Ubuntu/Debian in 10 years time, download Rocky/Alma.

[sarmad]

Red Hat. Ubuntu just has the numbers.

What do you mean by numbers, do you mean install count? I'm not sure if Ubuntu is still as wide spread as it once was, but if it's still the most popular then it makes sense for Intel to collaborate with Canonical.

[microcode]

Really wonder why main Ubuntu still isn't rolling release...