Ubuntu 25.10 now offers amd64v3 optimised packages. What does x86-64-v3 mean for your CPU, and will the modest performance improvements be noticeable?

Canonical announced they're working on architecture variants of Ubuntu, to hopefully result in better optimisation and performance on modern processors.

It’s been a few years since Canonical stopped developing a version of Ubuntu Linux for smartphones, but the folks at UBports picked up where Canonical left off… and they’ve been busy bringing new ...

Intel’s second-generation Compute Stick is a tiny computer with an Intel Atom x5-Z8300 Cherry Trail processor, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of storage. It’s only a little more powerful than the 2015 model, but it ...

I'm cobbling together a laptop - an Alienware M11xR3, that was running Windows 10 22H1 x64 up until falling apart this weekend. Tried fixing it with parts from an M11xR1, had some initial successes ...