Canonical Plans for a Fully Functional Desktop Session on RISC-V with Ubuntu 25.10

Posted by hanuca on Jul 13, 2025 1:59 AM CST
9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor
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With the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) release, Canonical plans to achieve a fully functional desktop session on the RISC-V architecture.

Last month, Canonical announced a significant change for RISC-V users that will drop support for most of the existing RISC-V hardware, as the company plans to raise the required RISC-V ISA profile family from RVA20 to RVA23. This means that about 90 percent of RISC-V devices won’t be able to run Ubuntu 25.10.

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