The Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) is a Azure Virtual Machine is a pre-configured cloud-based instance of the latest Ubuntu release, designed to provide a secure, high-performance, and up-to-date Linux environment for developers, DevOps engineers, and IT administrators; it helps users who need a reliable and scalable platform for building, testing, and deploying modern applications by eliminating the complexity of manual OS setup, ensuring compatibility with the latest tools, and providing seamless integration with Azure services.

Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) integrates the newest open-source desktop technologies with a strong emphasis on providing top-tier developer tools directly on Ubuntu. This release brings notable performance boosts for Intel GPUs

Linux 6.14 Kernel Delivers Improved Scheduling

This release features the latest Linux kernel, 6.14, aligning with Canonical's updated policy. Kernel developers can now leverage sched_ext, an innovative scheduling system that allows the implementation of scheduling policies as eBPF programs. This empowers developers to offload scheduling decisions to standard user-space programs, enabling them to create fully functional, hot-swappable Linux schedulers using any language, tool, library, or resource accessible in user-space.

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