A proposed Linux kernel governor for AMD's EPP could improve 1%-low frame rates by up to 31% on Steam Deck and AMD handhelds, with Wine and Proton thread hints on the roadmap.
Bazzite's latest stable rolls kernel 7.2.8-ogc4, adds AYANEO LED control, and fixes ASUS ROG Ally power button and MT7921e WiFi issues.
TrueNAS 27 RC.1 drops today built on Linux kernel 6.18 and OpenZFS 2.4, adopting a new yearly versioning scheme driven by community feedback.
DEBIX's first MediaTek-based SBC fits a 9-TOPS NPU, octa-core Genio 720 SoC, and rich I/O into a Raspberry Pi-sized industrial board with mainline Linux progress underway.
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.
TechNexion's TELOS-AI4000 delivers 40 TOPS of edge AI inference via NXP's Ara240 NPU in a compact 12W module with open-source Linux drivers and SDK on GitHub.
Alldocube's iPlay 80SE is a $131 Android 16 tablet with a Unisoc T310, microSD expansion, and USB-C OTG, making it an affordable tinkering option.
A Valve engineer migrated decade-old AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs to the modern AMDGPU kernel driver, unlocking Vulkan support and roughly 30% better performance on Linux.
Banana Pi's BPI-CM7 puts the Allwinner H618 on a tiny compute module with Wi-Fi 5, eMMC, and a companion carrier board with 40-pin GPIO.
AAEON's UP Xtreme PTL Edge Air pairs Intel Panther Lake with Frore Systems' solid-state cooling for a silent, 710-gram mini PC featuring a 40-pin GPIO header and up to 180 TOPS of AI compute.
Pinetek's IOL Core4 packs four IO-Link sensor ports onto a 60 x 45 mm module with open-source software, a Raspberry Pi eval kit, and dual Analog Devices MAX14819 transceivers.
ASRock Industrial's NUC Core 300 series pairs Intel Wildcat Lake processors with dual 2.5GbE, ECC DDR5, and an NPU in compact mini PCs and standalone NUC motherboards.
CachyOS surpasses SteamOS Holo as Steam's most-used Linux distro at 18.12%, even as overall Linux share dips to 3.05% amid a familiar Simplified Chinese sampling spike.
Xiaomi's 240 Hz Fast IPS gaming monitor arrives in Europe at €149 with 1 ms response, FreeSync Premium, and DisplayHDR 400.
Graperain's modular G733 dev board puts the Allwinner A733 octa-core SoC with 3-TOPS NPU and RISC-V coprocessor on a gold-finger SoM for embedded developers.
