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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux vs. AMD vs. Intel

Phoronix - Thu, 05/08/2025 - 20:30
June 2024 marked the launch of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite to much initial fanfare for finally some compelling ARM laptop designs. While initially -- and still to this day with the likes of the TUXEDO X Elite laptop not materializing yet -- being focused on Windows 11 on ARM, there was hope among Linux users this would lead to a nice ARM Linux laptop experience, since after all Qualcomm and Linaro were working on enhancing the support for Linux. Now approaching the one year point, the overall state of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite support and performance is rather disappointing. Here's a look at where things currently are and performance relative to AMD Ryzen and Intel Core Ultra when making use of the latest Ubuntu Linux support.

Few Apple Silicon Device Tree Updates Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Thu, 05/08/2025 - 20:00
Sven Peter has mailed out the Device Tree "DT" updates for benefiting Apple Silicon hardware with the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window...

OpenRazer 3.10.3 Brings Linux Driver Support For Razer's Naga V2 Pro & Strider Chroma

Phoronix - Thu, 05/08/2025 - 18:39
OpenRazer 3.10.3 was released on Wednesday as the newest update to this set of open-source, community-maintained and out-of-tree drivers for Razer hardware on Linux...

Linux 6.16 Bringing A Fix For Old Intel Haswell Graphics

Phoronix - Thu, 05/08/2025 - 18:28
With the Linux 6.15-rc6 kernel release due out on Sunday, we're hitting the transition point where the focus on DRM kernel graphics drivers for Linux 6.16 is shifting from feature work to bug-fixing ahead of this next merge window. As such sent out today were drm-misc-next and drm-intel-gt-next pull requests focused on preparing various kernel graphics/display driver fixes for the new code coming to Linux 6.16. The Intel pull request today even contains a fix for aging Intel Haswell graphics...

DragonFlyBSD Sees Progress On UVC Webcam Support

Phoronix - Thu, 05/08/2025 - 18:11
For those with a common USB Video Class "UVC" web camera, it could soon finally see support under the DragonFlyBSD operating system...

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