Release 26.06 “Aetherium”

SkillFishOS

The gaming operating system forged for the AMD BC-250.

Steampunk Linux, ready to play from the first boot. Everything pre-tuned, no tinkering needed. Emulation, Steam and on-device AI. Built on Debian and KDE Plasma.

AMD APU · Zen 2 + RDNA 2 · 16 GB GDDR6
SourceForge Favorite award, September 2026
Desktop SkillFishOS steampunk con HUD di sistema
What it is

A console-PC,
ready to use.

SkillFishOS turns the AMD BC-250 board — a semi-custom APU from the AMD Zen 2 + RDNA 2 family (CPU “Oberon”, “Cyan Skillfish” graphics, 16 GB GDDR6) — into a complete system to play and get things done.

Governors, kernel patches, overclock and thermal profiles come pre-tuned and ready: a system that runs at its best with no tinkering. A consistent steampunk look from boot to desktop, also designed to help kids learn Linux while they play.

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Features

Everything ready, out of the box.

Nothing to set up by hand: the system is already tuned for the BC-250.

Ready to game

Steam, EmuDeck, ES-DE, Heroic and Proton ready to go. EmuDeck installs and configures the emulators in a few clicks — you bring your own games and ROMs.

Tailored kernel

A tkg kernel tuned for the BC-250: 40 Compute Units unlocked, CPU/GPU overclock and a dedicated SMU governor to squeeze every TFLOP.

Ready, no tinkering

Governors, patches, overclock and a thermal-guard already configured and tested. Power on and it runs at full speed: no terminal, no manual tuning.

Steampunk theme

A dark, steampunk-themed KDE Plasma desktop: icons, cursors, wallpaper and a system HUD in a mechanical-Victorian style.

Btrfs snapshots

Tinker fearlessly: every change is protected by automatic snapshots. Something broke? One-click rollback from the boot menu.

On-device AI

Unsloth Studio accelerated in Vulkan on the integrated GPU: 5.1× faster than CPU, measured. Chat and coding models running at home, no cloud.

Remote control

Remote Manager: a web dashboard to control the board from your browser or phone — telemetry, KVM, terminal, Tuner, app store and AI. System login over HTTPS, and from anywhere with ZeroTier.

Screenshots

Great to look at, easy to use.

Desktop steampunk con HUD

The steampunk desktop

Steampunk-styled KDE Plasma: themed wallpaper, golden accents and a live HUD with CPU, GPU, temperatures, fan and Bluetooth controller battery, always in view.

EmuDeck su SkillFishOS

Easy emulation with EmuDeck

EmuDeck installs and configures the emulators (RetroArch, Dolphin, PCSX2, PPSSPP, RPCS3 and more) and the ES-DE frontend in a few clicks. The system provides the tools: you supply the games and ROMs.

Pannello AI di SkillFishOS

AI at home, inside the Control Center

The AI section starts the local engine on the Vulkan GPU, downloads the models and measures the tokens per second. Turn it off to play, and the memory goes back to the game.

Tuner di SkillFishOS

Tuning a click away

The Tuner draws the voltage/frequency curve of the governor, with the ceiling and three presets. Apply is a timed trial: without your confirmation the previous curve is what boots.

Hardware

Born for the AMD BC-250.

All the power of the AMD Zen 2 + RDNA 2 family, unleashed on Linux.

8× Zen 2
CPU "Oberon" · up to 4.0 GHz
RDNA 2
GPU "Cyan Skillfish" · 40 CU
~11 TFLOPS
FP32 · Vulkan acceleration
16 GB
shared GDDR6
SkillFishOS

Power on. Play. Learn.

An open-source operating system that turns a bare board into a real console-PC. Available in two editions: AMD BC-250 and Generic (any x86-64 PC/VM).

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