gaming mesa
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.
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.
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.
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+).
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.
linux amdgpu
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.
gaming steamos
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.
Gigabyte's New BRIX Mini PCs Pack Panther Lake Chips, Up to 128GB of RAM, and Ubuntu 25.10 Support
Gigabyte's new BRIX mini PCs run Intel Panther Lake chips up to a 16-core Core Ultra 9, with 128GB RAM, dual M.2 slots, PCIe 5.0, and WiFi 7 in a tiny chassis.
Zhihe A210 Octa-Core RISC-V SoC Arrives RVA23-Compliant With a 12 TOPS NPU
The octa-core Zhihe A210 ships RVA23-compliant with a 12 TOPS NPU and a Debian-ready SDK, landing on a SO-DIMM dev kit starting around $200.
AAEON's UP WCL Puts an Intel Wildcat Lake Chip on a Raspberry Pi-Sized Board
AAEON's UP WCL packs Intel Wildcat Lake silicon onto a Raspberry Pi-sized board, with up to 24GB LPDDR5, 2.5 GbE, and Xe3 graphics already supported in Linux 6.17 and Mesa.
Commodore Callback 8020 Flip Phone Brings Sailfish OS Back to Retail Hardware and Blocks Social Media at the System Level
Commodore's retro flip phone runs Jolla's Linux-based Sailfish OS and blocks browsers and social media at the system level, even cutting off sideloaded apps like TikTok at the DNS layer.