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Canonical partners with Qualcom for Snapdragon X

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When I'm reading about Ubuntu Core, I instantly think of this situation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26464063

In my eyes Canonical isn't trustworthy or able to create good product recently, unfortunately. At least looking at Ubuntu distro. I had high hopes for many years as this was my OS when I started my journey with Linux. For some time they are consistently forcing elements such as Snaps or ads in terminal. They seem to make switching from custom Canonical janky solutions to "standard" solutions harder or remove this choice completely (like removing apt packages and installing snaps instead). User's choice and customization was the very first thing I was interested in Ubuntu in first place. Now I guess choosing Debian is easier - you just skip part of removing Canonical weird OS elements during deployment.

Debian is always the answer. It has the least corporate oversight and integration of all the remaining distributions.

Qualcomm is latin for "no open source drivers, kernels as old as dinosaurs, no docs"

That's certainly been the case in the past but they've clearly changed their strategy of late.

They've upstreamed support for snapdragon 8g3 and I think also X (or x is in progress?).

https://www.linaro.org/blog/upstream-linux-support-now-avail...

https://www.linaro.org/blog/qualcomm-and-linaro-enable-lates...

I have some hopes for this. But at the same time I have many more doubts, principally that I don't think we'll ever see this in any hardware with any quality or support lifecycle even approaching Apple's ARM offering.

Meta: The final 'm' in "Qualcomm" is missing in the submission title. Thanks.

Oops. Dunno how to edit it.

What’s the board pictured in the article? Tablet prototype?

That's a pretty typical version of a System-on-Module prototyping board. I saw them during an internship at Qualcomm and another at TI. It's just a pin out of a basic phone screen, some interfaces (ethernet, etc) and places to hook up JTAG.

A very old (2012-era) Qualcomm development board. https://www.phoronix.com/review/qualcomm_dragonboard_s3

Hmmmm.

Any way for me to get that and put Debian on it?

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