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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Qualcomm Aiming For Snapdragon X Elite GPU Support In Linux 6.11 (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 4 months ago by just_another_person@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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A lot of people here seemed excited for these chips. It'll be very interesting to see the gaming performance as this could bring in an entire new segment of portable devices running Linux if powerful enough to deliver solid battery life and CPU performance.

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[–] chrash0@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

always? Android runs a linux kernel, and they support all kinds of embedded systems that run Linux.

[–] Charadon@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 4 months ago

Until recently, that "support" had been a barely supported forks of the linux kernel that were barely updated, and was so locked down that custom rom support was a pipedream on snapdragon processors. Which to be fair, is par for the course on most ARM chipsets (It's the reason you see a lot of custom roms for android have extremely old and outdated kernels)

I'm glad to see more ARM companies moving towards working with upstream projects, and not just making working on their stuff a PITA to protect "Trade Secrets" or some bullshit like that.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'm sorry for leaving out the word "desktop". I'm well aware that Android runs the Linux kernel and that many embedded systems run Linux.

Possibly I conflated them with Broadcom, but I feel sure I recall Qualcomm's lack of openness being problematic in the past also.

Edit - yeah, folks jumping through hoops for their wifi at least as recently as Ubuntu 20.04. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1277359/my-qualcomm-atheros-qca9377-wireless-adopter-is-not-working-in-ubuntu-20-04-lts

[–] chrash0@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

ah yeah. maybe less well known, but i had a dev kit from Qualcomm that came with Ubuntu