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Linux Kernel for Surface Devices

12 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 2 stories, 10 comments · first 2018-02-25 · latest 2020-05-16

Mentions per year 12 mentions · busiest year 2018 (6)
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  1. Installing this kernel makes it work amazing: https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface
    comment by halotrope · 2020-05-16 · in OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go 2
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    Microsoft Surface Book 2 as a Linux laptop
    story by erikbye · 2020-01-28 · 0 comments
  3. …(Touch works, detach clipboard, nvidia-gpu, function keys). Its really a great linux machine tbh 1 https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface
    comment by halotrope · 2019-08-29 · in MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy
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    Linux Surface–Linux Kernel for Surface Devices
    story by nkkollaw · 2019-05-12 · 0 comments
  5. …and the firmware started to give the required support for working daily. The linux-surface kernel ( https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface ) gives extra functionality - mainly the touchpad.
    comment by pizza234 · 2019-03-16 · in iPad Pro as Development Machine
  6. You should be able to get touch working - https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface I haven't tried personally but I've looked into it before.
    comment by bpye · 2019-01-04 · in Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019
  7. I've found the surface book + https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface To work quite nicely, battery life is decent (6-8 hours with coding and web browsing usage). I'd think the Surface Pro would be similar.
    comment by dbetteridge · 2018-07-23 · in 2 Weeks with Ubuntu Linux on the Dell XPS 13
  8. …- Surface Pro 3: stock LTS or stock Zen kernel - Surface Pro 2017: git kernel with patches from (http://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface) None of the devices support S3 suspend. They support only "Connected Standby." (…
    comment by jamesdutc · 2018-07-10 · in Microsoft announces Surface Go
  9. …out how to get all the bits of hardware working in Linux? There is donation information at: https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface
  10. …support are: - the battery[2][3], charge or capacity status - "performance base" dedicated GPUs 1: https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface 2: https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface/issues/28 3: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id…
  11. …at least once, which is not acceptable for something so expensive from such a large vendor. [1] https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface
  12. …Some angel made drivers/software to enable support for the various Surface hardware on Ubuntu ( https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface ) and so I went through the process of getting all that together. Also I tried a few different Ubuntu…