Orange Pi 6 Packs 12-Core CIX P1 and 24GB RAM Into a 90mm Board
The Orange Pi 6 crams a 12-core CIX P1 SoC, up to 24GB LPDDR5, dual NVMe slots, and 45 TOPS of AI compute into a 90mm board with Ubuntu 26.04 support.
MINIX N304-AI Brings Intel Wildcat Lake to a Compact Dual-Ethernet Mini PC
The MINIX N304-AI is one of the first mini PCs on Intel's Core 3 N304, a Wildcat Lake chip that adds a Performance core to the budget class and already has Linux 6.17 driver support.
KDE Plasma 6.7 Adds Simultaneous HDR and ICC Color Management as Last X11 Release
Plasma 6.7 lets HDR and ICC color management run at once, debuts the Union CSS theming system, and stands as KDE's last desktop release to ship an X11 session.
FreeBSD 15.1 Pulls Its Wi-Fi Drivers From Linux 7.0 and Adds a Boot-Time Scheduler Switch
FreeBSD 15.1 rebases its iwlwifi and other LinuxKPI wireless drivers on Linux 7.0 and adds a boot-time kernel scheduler switch, with arm64 and pkg-managed base images.
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+).
ONEXPLAYER X2 Mini Pro Packs Strix Halo and 64GB of RAM Into a Handheld
The ONEXPLAYER X2 Mini Pro pairs an AMD Strix Halo chip and up to 64GB of unified memory in an 8.8 inch AMOLED handheld, making it a strong fit for Linux gaming and local LLMs.
LILYGO's T-Echo Lite Kit Pairs nRF52840 and LoRa With a Keyboard for Off-Grid Mesh
LILYGO's T-Echo Lite Kit brings an nRF52840, SX1262 LoRa radio, e-paper display, and a detachable 5x4 keyboard to off-grid mesh messaging.
gpd box
GPD BOX Mini PC Pairs Panther Lake With PCIe 5.0 eGPU Expansion
The GPD BOX mini PC runs Panther Lake on Intel 18A and routes a PCIe 5.0 x8 MCIO link to full external GPUs, plus dual 2.5GbE and USB4 v2.0 at 80Gbps.
AYANEO Teases Pocket MICRO 2 as a 'Gen 2 Powerhouse' Android Emulation Handheld
AYANEO has teased the Pocket MICRO 2, a 'Gen 2 Powerhouse' Android retro handheld likely jumping from the Helio G99 to a far faster MediaTek Dimensity chip.
M5Stack LLM-8850 Kit Brings a 24 TOPS Axera NPU to the Raspberry Pi 5
M5Stack's LLM-8850 Kit adds a 24 TOPS Axera AX8850 NPU to the Raspberry Pi 5 over PCIe, with open AXCL tooling for running Qwen3, Llama 3.2, and Whisper locally.
Alpine Linux 3.24.1 Ships OpenSSL Security Fixes for Container Hosts
Alpine 3.24.1 patches 15 CVEs including the June 2026 OpenSSL advisory, a priority update for the musl-based distro that underpins countless Docker and Kubernetes base images.
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.
OneXPlayer X2 Mini Pro Pairs Strix Halo Silicon With a 144Hz OLED in a 3-in-1 Handheld
The OneXPlayer X2 Mini Pro packs a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 or 388, a 144Hz OLED, and an optional liquid cooler pushing the Radeon 8060S to 120W.
OpenZFS 2.3.8 Keeps the Stable Storage Branch Patched as 2.4 Moves Ahead
OpenZFS 2.3.8 patches the stable branch behind most ZFS NAS and homelab setups, the same line that brought RAIDZ expansion, fast dedup, and the zfs rewrite command.
OpenZFS 2.4.3 Ships Data-Integrity Fixes and Refreshed Platform Support
OpenZFS 2.4.3 lands 64 commits of data-integrity and parsing-hardening fixes, including dedup and redacted-send corrections, plus FreeBSD 15.x, Ubuntu 26.04, and aarch64 build support.