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Qualcomm engineering director Trilok Soni recently confirmed that the company's Linux team published Linux kernel updates for the Snapdragon 8 Elite processor. Qualcomm unveiled the SoC earlier this month, targeting a new generation of flagship phones and tablets supporting Android and Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Now this puts a smile on my face. I know Android is looking nux based, but I am thinking of Ubuntu Phone idea a decade ago, later tried with Samsung and their desktop integration. You have your phone, where you recieve emails and stuff, then at work it goes in a dock and boom, there is your desktop, a real Linux one, where you can work on.

[–] onlinepersona 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Arm Linux software is relatively sparse, so users will likely want to emulate x86 and Windows applications

What? That doesn't sound right at all. Many things can be recompiled to target a new architecture, and lots of stuff is written in an interpreted language with an interpreter for ARM.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

lol yeah…. Debian has has an arm64 variant since version 8:

98% of Debian is currently built: over 12200 source (arch-specific) packages. https://wiki.debian.org/Arm64Port

It is true that for gaming we’re back into emulating x64 and translating Windows APIs via WINE and maybe Proton but almost all Linux software will work natively.

[–] GarlicToast 1 points 2 weeks ago

Will all the needed binary blobs survive a kernel update? Cus that's a blocker for both long term and distro wide support.