Canonical announces the general availability of an enterprise-grade real-time Ubuntu kernel for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) systems.

To get started with the real-time kernel for Ubuntu 24.04, check out the official documentation. One thing to keep in mind if you’re an NVIDIA GPU user is that the real-time Ubuntu kernel does not support the proprietary NVIDIA graphics drivers.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
    262·
    4 months ago

    You can just enable all of these features on any 6.8+ kernel. You don’t need Ubuntu Pro.

    No, it will no radically improve your gaming performance, but it will definitely increase your energy bill.

        • just_another_person@lemmy.world
          4·
          4 months ago

          Partially, but the shift is more in the amount of power required to constantly serve interrupts. That’s essentially what these flags enable. Where previously the kernel would be more lax about scheduling such things, this let’s all those interrupts off the chain. More interrupts = more power draw. The ARM and AMD extensions mean to reduce that in a meaningful way, though.

    • VeryImportantUser@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 months ago

      Perhaps because it takes time, resources and workforce to build another kernel version. Not to mention Ubuntu Pro is actually free. But then again, I know we’re just supposed to hate Ubuntu here.