Walnut Pi CM2 Brings Allwinner T527 to the Raspberry Pi CM5 Form Factor

First Allwinner T527 compute module in the CM5 form factor brings octa-core Cortex-A55, a 2 TOPS NPU, WiFi 6, and a RISC-V coprocessor starting at $28.

Devices Allwinner T527 2026-09-29

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Igalia and Valve Are Bringing Native Wayland Support to Firefox on the Steam Deck

Igalia is migrating Firefox on the Steam Deck from X11 to native Wayland under Gamescope, fixing touch scrolling, gamepad input, and enabling HDR video support.

Linux Steam Deck 2026-09-29

devices NUC BOX 320

ASRock Industrial Brings Intel Wildcat Lake to Four Compact NUC Platforms With Dual 2.5GbE

ASRock Industrial's four Wildcat Lake-U NUC platforms pack dual 2.5GbE, DDR5-6400 with ECC, and 40 TOPS AI inference into a sub-12 cm chassis, with solid upstream Linux support already in place.

Devices Mini Pc 2026-09-29

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Framework Desktop Packs 192 GB of Unified Memory for Local AI Workloads

Framework's 192 GB Gorgon Halo desktop can allocate 160 GB to its integrated GPU for local LLM inference and ships with a Fedora pre-built option.

Devices Framework 2026-09-29

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Rockchip RK1828 M.2 AI Card Pushes 70 Tokens per Second for Local LLMs

Rockchip's RK1828 M.2 AI card packs 20 TOPS and 5GB of 3D-stacked DRAM, hitting 70 tok/s on Qwen2.5-7B with four-card cascading support up to 31B models.

Devices Rockchip 2026-09-29

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.

Review Gaming 2026-07-01 4.5

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.

Review Devices 2026-06-13 4.5

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Forlinx's M.2 AI Card Brings 20-TOPS Local LLM Inference to Rockchip SBCs

Forlinx's M.2 2280 card packs a Rockchip RK1828 NPU with 5GB stacked DRAM, running 7B LLMs at 70 tok/s on Rockchip SBCs. Four cards cascade for 27B models.

Devices Rockchip 2026-09-29

Bazzite 44.20260928.1 Ships With Kernel 7.2.7, Mesa 26.2.2, and Updated Nvidia Drivers

Bazzite's latest stable image pairs Linux kernel 7.2.7 with Mesa 26.2.2, fresh Nvidia drivers, and updated Gamescope for handheld gaming setups.

Linux Bazzite 2026-09-28

GMKtec's Evo-X5 Pro Puts 160GB of VRAM in a Rackable Mini PC

GMKtec's Evo-X5 Pro packs 192GB of unified memory with 160GB allocatable as VRAM, enough to run 300B-parameter LLMs locally on a single rackable mini PC.

Devices Mini Pc 2026-09-28

Minisforum MS-S1 Max-P495 Brings 160GB VRAM to a Compact AI Workstation

Minisforum's MS-S1 Max-P495 uses AMD's Gorgon Halo APU with 192GB RAM and 160GB allocatable VRAM, enough to run 284B-parameter models locally.

Devices Mini Pc 2026-09-28

Bazzite Adds Hibernation Support, Anbernic Win600 Compatibility, and Swaps Vim for ms-edit

Bazzite's latest stable adds Anbernic Win600 handheld support, hibernation for portable devices, Waydroid on Nvidia GPUs, and swaps vim for ms-edit as the default terminal editor.

Gaming Bazzite 2026-09-28

EWatch Is a Hackable ESP32-S3 Smartwatch With Open-Source Drivers

A hackable ESP32-S3 smartwatch with open-source drivers, multi-language firmware support, and three build options from bare PCB to fully assembled.

Devices Esp32 2026-09-27

devices ESP Mosaico V1.0

Espressif's ESP-Mosaico Crams Wi-Fi 6, Touch Display, and Motion Sensors Into a Modular RISC-V Dev Kit

Espressif's ESP-Mosaico packs a touch display, IMU, magnetometers, audio, and haptics around the new dual-core RISC-V ESP32-S31 with Wi-Fi 6 and Thread/Zigbee.

Devices Esp32 2026-09-27

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Lenovo Legion C700 Brings Dongle-Based PC Game Streaming to Android Handhelds

Lenovo's first Android gaming handheld ships with a USB dongle for direct PC game streaming at 10ms latency, bypassing Wi-Fi entirely.

Gaming Lenovo Legion 2026-09-26

linux fex emu

New Kernel Patches Bring FEX-Emu Closer to Smooth x86 Game Emulation on ARM64

Igalia posted v7 of its FUTEX robust list patches for the Linux kernel, improving x86 game emulation on ARM64 via FEX-Emu for Steam Play.

Linux Fex Emu 2026-09-26

Incus 7.5 Fixes Five Critical Container Escape Flaws, Adds OVN Child Networks and GPU P2P Passthrough

Incus 7.5 patches four critical host-escape CVEs and ships OVN child networks, NVIDIA GPUDirect P2P passthrough for VMs, and improved OCI container support.

Linux Incus 2026-09-25