KDE Plasma 6.7.1 Lands With First Fixes for HDR and Wayland Desktop
Plasma 6.7.1 ships the first fixes for the release that brought simultaneous HDR and ICC color management, per-screen virtual desktops, and the final dedicated X11 session.
Zotac ZBOX CI471 Nano Brings Intel Wildcat Lake to a Fanless Mini PC
Zotac's fanless ZBOX CI471 nano pairs Intel's new Wildcat Lake chip with a passively cooled chassis, and the Xe3 graphics already have open-source driver support in Linux 6.17 and Mesa.
Valve Prices the Steam Machine as SteamOS 3.8 Opens DIY Builds
SteamOS 3.8.10 now installs on any PC, letting you build your own Steam Machine, while Valve sets the prebuilt box at $1,050 with a randomized waitlist.
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Valve Adds Ray-Tracing Inspector GUI to Mesa 26.1 for RADV Driver Tuning
Valve's Linux team merged the Ray-Tracing Inspector into Mesa 26.1, a GUI for dissecting RADV's BVH and ray dispatches to push AMD ray-tracing performance further.
Reviews
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.
Best Single Board Computer for Home Server in 2026
Added Orange Pi 6 Plus (12-core, dual 5GbE, $199+). Updated Raspberry Pi 5 prices (RAM crisis: 4GB $75, 8GB $115). Updated Radxa X4 to 2.5GbE and corrected pricing. Updated ZimaBoard 2 to retail pricing ($279+).
TrueNAS V140 Adds a 16-Core EPYC Node to the V-Series Lineup
TrueNAS slots a 16-core EPYC node into its V-Series: same Linux + OpenZFS enterprise software as the flagship, up to 16 PB raw, and an in-place controller-swap upgrade to the V160.
Pine64 Ships PineVoice, a $50 RISC-V Smart Speaker Built for Home Assistant
Pine64's PineVoice is a $50 RISC-V smart speaker built on the Bouffalo BL606P, with two mics, a hardware mute kill switch, and local Home Assistant voice control.
Alpine Linux 3.22.5 and 3.23.5 Patch OpenSSL and Xen Vulnerabilities
Alpine Linux 3.22.5 and 3.23.5 land OpenSSL and Xen security fixes, an in-place apk upgrade for the tiny musl-based distro that anchors countless containers and SBCs.
Olimex Ships Preassembled A20 OLinuXino Touch Panel With Open Hardware Files
Olimex's LCD7-PANEL-LIME2 is a preassembled 7-inch Linux touch panel built on the open-hardware A20-OLinuXino-LIME2, with mainline kernel support and Linux preflashed to eMMC.
Eazeye Radiant Monitor 2 Pairs a Sunlight-Readable Transflective LCD With 3-Watt Power Draw
Eazeye's Radiant Monitor 2 uses a transflective LCD that stays readable in direct sunlight at just 3 watts, with 16.7M colors and 60 Hz that E Ink can't match.
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Valve Devs Improve GPU Crash Recovery for Older AMD Radeon Cards on Linux
Valve's Linux team is adding IP block soft reset to AMDGPU, letting older Radeon GPUs recover from hangs without resetting the whole card or losing VRAM.
GMK EVO-X3 Mini Workstation Pairs Ryzen AI Max+ 395 With Up to 128GB of Unified Memory
The GMK EVO-X3 mini workstation runs AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with up to 128GB of unified memory, enough to hold 70B-parameter LLMs locally on Linux via llama.cpp and ROCm.
Anbernic's First Snapdragon Handheld, the RG 55G1, Points Toward Better Open-Source Emulation
Anbernic's teased RG 55G1 looks set to be its first Snapdragon handheld, bringing Adreno GPUs and mature open-source Turnip drivers that make Wine-based Windows emulation far more viable.
Rockchip RK3539 Brings 4K AV1 Decoding and Gigabit Ethernet to a New Quad-A55 SoC
Rockchip's new RK3539 quad-A55 SoC adds 4K AV1 decoding, HDMI 2.1, and gigabit Ethernet, debuting in the HS89 T15 Android 14 TV stick starting around $34.
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SteamOS 3.8 Reaches Stable With Linux 6.16, KDE Plasma 6.4 and Wayland by Default
SteamOS 3.8 hits stable with the Linux 6.16 kernel, KDE Plasma 6.4, Wayland by default, the LAVD scheduler, and initial support for Valve's Steam Machine.