Qualcomm will finally support Linux on Snapdragon X2 chips.
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“For many years developers have asked us for one thing, Linux on Snapdragon. We heard you,” says Kedar Kondap, SVP and general manager of compute and gaming at Qualcomm. Speaking at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit, Kondap says Linux support with Debian will be available “at the end of this year” for Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon X2 series of chips. Qualcomm is upstreaming core drivers, including for its Hexagon NPU and Adreno GPU. Ubuntu support is also coming in the first half of 2027. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/chrome_KLSva2KkHU.png?quality=90&strip=all]
  • adr1an@programming.devEnglish
    23·
    1 month ago

    As much as I welcome this I can’t help but wonder, why do they care?

    Is it because it was the year of the Linux desktop? ;D

      • TheWilliamist@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        They may not have done well fiscally however I’ve been using a Lenovo ARM64 desktop and laptop for quite a while and my only pain points are the horrible, awful, type 4 printer support and having to hack around to get the shittastic VMware remote console (VMRC) to install.

  • utopiah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 month ago

    Late indeed but with the Frame already shipped running Arch and KDE on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 it’s definitely going to be interesting.

  • Quazatron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 month ago

    Qualcomm wants a piece of Nvidia’s server market pie.

    I expect the “support” is to ship some binary blobs in a open source wrapper at most, like Nvidia does.

  • dudeface@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    I was interested years ago potentially of a tablet form factor as a nice travel device

    Don’t think I care anymore