Anbernic's $65 RG SP Brings GBA Clamshell Nostalgia to Linux
Anbernic's GBA SP-inspired clamshell runs Linux on the community-favorite Allwinner H700, with muOS and Knulli custom firmware support expected shortly after launch.
linux steam controller
Linux 7.3 Brings Gyro and Accelerometer Support to the Original Steam Controller's Kernel Driver
Linux 7.3 adds gyro, accelerometer, and touch grip support to the hid-steam kernel driver, letting the original Steam Controller's motion sensors work natively without Steam or SDL.
linux netbsd
NetBSD 11.0 Arrives With RISC-V and Snapdragon X Elite Support
NetBSD's 19th major release brings its first stable RISC-V port for boards like the VisionFive 2, plus a MICROVM kernel that boots VMs in 10 ms.
Jellyfin for Android 2.7 Makes Native Video the Default, Cuts Transcoding for Self-Hosters
Jellyfin for Android 2.7 defaults to native video playback to reduce transcoding, redesigns downloads for offline use, and rewrites Android Auto with audiobook support.
Reviews
Lenovo Legion Go 2 Review: Running Bazzite on AMD Z2 Extreme Handheld
Bazzite turns the Legion Go 2 into more than a gaming handheld, with the Z2 Extreme and OLED display making it a genuinely versatile Linux device.
Orange Pi Zero 3W Review: Octa-Core A733 in a Pi Zero Footprint
Orange Pi crams an octa-core Allwinner A733 and up to 16GB of LPDDR5 into a Raspberry Pi Zero footprint, with a 10 Gbps USB port and about 4x a Pi Zero 2 W's multi-core grunt.
devices ELM11 Feather
ELM11-Feather Brings a Full FPGA to the Adafruit Feather Form Factor
An FPGA dev board in the Feather form factor that lets you reprogram the processor, peripherals, and I/O in Lua, C, and HDL, with open source toolchain support via Yosys and Apicula.
devices Octopus 16
Octopus 16 Packs a 16-Channel Open-Source Brain-Computer Interface Into a Coin-Sized PCB
A 26 mm open-source board with 16 EEG channels and dual 24-bit ADCs turns a XIAO ESP32-S3 into a wireless brain-controlled gamepad for $250.
gaming steam survey
Steam on Linux Recovers to 4% in July After Three-Month Slide
Linux rebounds to 4.01% in the July Steam Survey after months of decline, with SteamOS Holo now powering 22% of Linux gaming systems as the Steam Machine begins shipping.
Bazzite 44.20260802 Ships Kernel 7.1.5 and Mesa 26.1.6 in Latest Stable Update
Bazzite's latest stable image bumps the kernel to 7.1.5 and Mesa to 26.1.6, with updated Nvidia drivers, Gamescope, and a new OpenCL ICD loader replacing ocl-icd.
FriendlyELEC NanoPi R28S Squeezes Dual Gigabit Ethernet and WiFi 6 Into a Tiny OpenWrt Router
FriendlyELEC's NanoPi R28S crams dual Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi 6, and a USB-C debug console into a 5 cm router board starting at $20.
devices Zinwa Q27
Zinwa Q27 Brings a Full QWERTY Keyboard to a 5G Android 16 Phone
Zinwa's first fully custom keyboard phone packs a Dimensity 7300, 5G, and Android 16 into a BlackBerry Classic-inspired form factor.
InHand Mo 62A and Mo 68A Pack TI Vision AI Into a Raspberry Pi Form Factor
Two Pi-sized SBCs from InHand bring TI's 2 and 8 TOPS vision AI processors to a HAT-compatible board running Debian 13.2 on Linux 6.12.
Incus 7.3 Patches Nine Critical Vulnerabilities, Adds Shared GPU Acceleration for VMs
Incus 7.3 fixes 13 security issues (9 critical host-level exploits) and introduces shared GPU acceleration for VMs via virglrenderer, letting multiple guests share one GPU without passthrough.
Proxmox VE Gains Official NVIDIA Partnership, Will Support Grace and Vera ARM CPUs
Proxmox VE is being optimized for NVIDIA's ARM-based Grace and Vera CPUs as part of a new partnership that integrates the open-source hypervisor into NVIDIA's AI data center management stack.
Espressif's ESP32-S31 Enters Mass Production With RISC-V Cores, Wi-Fi 6, Thread, and a Full MMU
Espressif's ESP32-S31 ships with dual RISC-V cores at 320 MHz, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Thread/Zigbee on one chip for under $6.