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Dell Bringing Thunderbolt 3 USB-C Support To Linux

Posted by timothy on from the bring-it-faster dept.

Freshly Exhumed writes: A series of posts on the Project Sputnik developers' forum at Dell indicate that hardware on a soon to be released XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop will support Thunderbolt 3 USB Type C, which has been tested on the device with video and USB 3.1 on non-dock devices, although Dell's Type C docks are not yet supported. Intel has already implemented Thunderbolt 3 drivers in the Linux kernel, so this Dell initiative represents a first for a physical implementation on a consumer platform.

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  1. What you are saying is... by Junta · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That Intel brought that support to Linux, not Dell. Dell gets credit for preloading Linux, but the subject is misleading, given that Intel did the heavy software lifting.

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