“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.
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If I had to guess, it would be to have an easier time getting intoe the server market.
Being able to develop on the same platform as the one that a program is deployed to usually allows for much lower friction and faster development cycles.
It can also be used to ramp up collaboration with the Linux project, which is useful for getting patches upstreames promptly.
If I had to guess, it would be to have an easier time getting intoe the server market.
Being able to develop on the same platform as the one that a program is deployed to usually allows for much lower friction and faster development cycles.
It can also be used to ramp up collaboration with the Linux project, which is useful for getting patches upstreames promptly.