TUXEDO OS Drops Ubuntu for Debian as Cinnamon Wayland Goes Stable
TUXEDO ditches Ubuntu for Debian Testing over Snap and AI frustrations, Cinnamon 6.8 fully supports Wayland, and SteamOS 3.8.14 fixes a Wi-Fi throttle bug on Steam Deck.
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 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.
The final KDE Plasma 6.6 maintenance release fixes an XWayland clipboard freeze, a KWin memory leak, and a security path-traversal issue.
MagicX reveals two Linux-powered Mini40 handheld variants, swapping the old RK3566 for a beefier RK3572 at $79 or an ultra-budget Allwinner A333 at $59.
GMKtec's EVO-X3 mini PC ships with a Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128GB unified memory, and OCuLink, with Linux offering 20-30% better AI inference performance than Windows through ROCm.
KKSB's steel rack panels fit 2, 5, or 10 Raspberry Pi boards into standard server racks with clearance for HATs and active cooling.
Proton 11.0-1 lands as the first stable release on Wine 11.0, fixing broken EA games and adding first-time support for Gothic 1 Classic, X-Plane 12, and classic Resident Evil titles.
Minisforum's NAB9S crams a Core i9-13900HK and dual 2.5GbE into a palm-sized chassis starting at $399 barebones, though it trades away OCuLink and USB4.
Pi-hole FTL 6.7 patches six security vulnerabilities including a remote code execution flaw, updates dnsmasq to v2.93, and adds a proper DHCP static leases editor.
GL.iNet's Comet X crams four independent KVM-over-IP ports, PoE, and Linux 6.1 into a single rack-mountable box with self-hosted remote access.
Amazon quietly added a 4GB RAM option to the Fire HD 10 (2023) with no announcement, while its broader device strategy shifts toward the Linux-based Vega OS.
Innoelement's Halo Touch V2 combines a round IPS touchscreen, rotary encoder with haptic feedback, and per-port USB power monitoring in a compact desktop hub.