Marek Olšák's VRS overhaul in the RADV Vulkan driver can double performance in some Proton/VKD3D scenarios, with 22 patches landing in Mesa 26.2.
KDE Gear 26.04.3 closes the series with targeted fixes for Kdenlive's playhead tracking, Elisa's audio output switching, and KDE Connect file transfers.
A 1 GHz Cortex-M85 MCU with Arm's Ethos-U55 NPU on a Pi HAT-compatible board running open-source RT-Thread RTOS, starting at $44.
EDATEC's ED-IPC1200 pairs a Raspberry Pi CM0 with isolated digital I/O, serial ports, and optional 4G LTE in a fanless DIN-rail enclosure for industrial data acquisition.
Linux drops to 3.69% on Steam in June, shedding two-thirds of its March record, while Proton 11 and FSR 4 keep the gaming stack advancing.
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.
The Flipper Zero team's BUSY Bar is an open-source focus display with native Matter support, an HTTP API, and Python and TypeScript libraries for Home Assistant automations.
Sipeed's NanoKVM-Go is a watch-sized USB-C KVM doing 4K capture, WiFi 6, and Tailscale, plus an MCP server that lets AI agents drive the remote machine. Starts at $49.
The WeAct N006 mounts an NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX onto a 90 x 60 mm carrier board with CAN Bus, dual PCIe Gen4 M.2 slots, and XT30 power for drones and robots.
RootBoard is a Kickstarter handheld that wraps a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W in a 70-key keyboard, color display, and battery for a pocketable, open-hardware Linux terminal.
System76's ultralight Lemur Pro now comes in 14- and 16-inch sizes with Intel Panther Lake chips, Arc B390 graphics on open-source drivers, and Pop!_OS with COSMIC.
Seeed's XIAO nRF54LM20A boards put Nordic's Bluetooth 6.0, Matter, and Thread SoC on a thumbnail-sized USB-C board, drawing as little as 0.33 µA and starting near $10.
The $50 Forgix board pairs a Raspberry Pi RP2354 with an Efinix Trion T8 FPGA in a Teensy footprint, with an open-source loader that streams bitstreams over USB.
GPD's next mini gaming laptop packs a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with Radeon 8060S, 128GB unified memory, a 165 Hz screen, and a swappable external battery.
The Simplia CONNECT RW612 fits WiFi 6, Bluetooth LE, Thread/Zigbee, LTE-M, NB-IoT, and GNSS onto a single M.2 2230 card, with open hardware files and Zephyr plus Matter support.
The CirkitScape Top HAT packs a 12-bit ADC, RS-485, an MCP23017 GPIO expander, and a 4-port USB hub onto one Raspberry Pi HAT, with mainline kernel driver support for the key chips.
The REDMAGIC Astra 2 runs x86 PC games on Android via a built-in translation layer, backed by a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, a 185 Hz OLED, and active liquid cooling.
The DEBIX T62P-01 runs mainline Linux 6.12 on TI's AM62P alongside FreeRTOS on dual real-time cores, with a Vulkan 1.2 GPU, TSN Gigabit Ethernet, and PoE.
KDE Plasma 6.7.2 lands with a week of fixes and new translations for the desktop that powers Steam Deck's desktop mode and countless Linux mini PCs.
Kali Linux 2026.2 swaps sources.list for the deb822 format, rebuilds a smaller initrd for faster VM boots, and ships GNOME 50 and Plasma 6.6.