Intel & Canonical Collaborate On Graphics Preview Stack For Ubuntu 24.10

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Guessing, but no future excitement, direct-competition with themselves vs release versions, and added confusion (why would anyone use non-LTS release like 24.10 vs rolling?).

I'd be into using rolling Ubuntu, but likely wouldn't bother with non-LTS if rolling existed.

That's what I'm saying, LTS should be checkpointed off the rolling release, which should replace the non-LTS releases.

[Svyatko]

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 .

If SUSE then openSUSE Leap, not Tumbleweed.
OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 got newer Mesa 3D (24.3.1) only recently (from Experimental X11:XOrg repo).
I'm constantly fighting with openSUSE devs to get new Mesa 3D for Leap, not just for Tumbleweed.
Rusticl is not available for Leap from openSUSE, but available from community repos.

It took about 4 years to get support for installation openSUSE Tumbleweed on x86-64 CPU with 32-bit EFI, for Leap it is still in semiprepared state.

[sarmad]

Yes that's what I meant and that's why they collaborate with them. intel already do binary releases often as debs only so it's the path of least resistance for them. Ubuntu still has the numbers just like windows 10 still has the numbers.

I don't think comparing Ubuntu to Windows 10 is accurate. Windows 10 still has the number, but is expected to wind down since the company behind it is moving to Windows 11. On the other hand, the company behind Ubuntu is still supporting it, so it's not expected that the numbers of Ubuntu installs go down the same way as is the case with a product going out of support.

[Espionage724]

Because it just works in any distro that decides to ship the latest Mesa and Kernel (e.g. Fedora), so there is no need for this.

Latest isn't always the greatest, and specifically in Fedora's case I'm still appalled at the mesa-freeworld AMDGPU situation where Fedora Mesa updates would clash with the official-but-unofficial-codec-games VA-API acceleration package from RPM Fusion; all open-source with what's supposed to be the best GPU vendor for Linux, but any Fedora Mesa updates would lead to a black-screen on reboot.

That's why I still recommend Ubuntu today for Linux: no codec or 3rd-party repo games