A small project is judged partly on how often it says something. Here are the news in date order and the road ahead, with the state of each item — including the ones that are not ready.
Nowości
wydanie
SkillFishOS 26.06.3 “Aetherium”
Two editions, BC-250 and Generic, for the AMD board and for any x86-64 PC or virtual machine.
The language you choose now applies everywhere: interface, login screen, web panel and the installer slideshow too, which used to stay in English. Italian, English, Polish and Ukrainian — and if a translation is missing, you get English.
Underneath: kernel 7.1.7 with the 40 Compute Unit unlock and the eight-core unlock, Btrfs installs with restore points live from the first boot, and on-device AI on the GPU. A fresh install comes up with every service healthy.
The Slim edition is no longer shipped as an image: the slim kernel stays in the repository for anyone who wants it.
aktualizacja
Five restore points, and one command to go back
The system looks after its own restore points: it takes one before and one after every apt operation, keeps five — three ordinary ones and two from the important upgrades, the ones touching the kernel or systemd — and lists them in the boot menu, refreshed on every transaction.
From the boot menu you go in to look around and rescue files. To actually start again from one of them there is a new command:
sudo skillfish-rollback 12
At the next boot the system is the one from back then. The previous system is not deleted: it is set aside, and --undo puts it back. Your home directory is never touched: the system travels back, your files stay as they are.
It arrives with sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade — no reinstall needed.
AI
On-device AI moves to Unsloth Studio
Instead of three Docker containers there is now a single native service, offering both the chat and an OpenAI-compatible API. Docker is no longer installed.
On the board, with Qwen3-1.7B: 210 tokens per second on the GPU over Vulkan against 41 on the CPU alone — five times as fast. Models come straight from the Hugging Face catalogue. The service listens on loopback only: from outside you reach it through the remote panel, which authenticates against the system accounts.
wydanie
SkillFishOS 26.06.2
Images rebuilt with the fixes gathered over the first month: live session language, AI on the GPU, user groups. Three editions on SourceForge.
wydanie
The first public release: 26.06 “Aetherium”
A second-hand mining board becomes a ready-to-use console-PC: a custom kernel with the 40 Compute Unit unlock, an SMU governor, overclock profiles with a thermal guard, a steampunk theme from boot to desktop, Steam and emulators, on-device AI.
It started as a way to get my children using and learning Linux while they game. Gaming is the carrot, snapshots are the net.
Roadmapa
What we are working on, what comes next and what has already landed. No dates promised unless we actually have them.
w toku
Torrent downloads
From SourceForge in Europe you get around 250 kB/s: for a 4.7 GB image that is unacceptable, and it is the first thing anyone meets. We are preparing torrent distribution, with the current mirrors as HTTP fallback sources, so a download no longer depends on one slow mirror.
w toku
Installation guide with screenshots, in four languages
A step-by-step guide with real installer screenshots, reshot for every language: the interface changes, so translating the captions is not enough. A first-time installer sees exactly what is in front of them, in their own language.
planowanegrudzień 2026
Release 26.12 on Debian trixie + backports
The base moves from sid to trixie (stable) plus backports: a stable system with a recent kernel and graphics where it matters. This answers the fairest criticism we have had — sid gives you the newest software but it can break, and on a home console that hurts.
planowane
Snapshot management in a window
Btrfs Assistant already ships with the system: it needs to be in the menu, themed and translated, so that listing, creating and restoring a snapshot needs no terminal. Anyone who prefers the command line keeps skillfish-rollback.
planowane
Game streaming with Sunshine
Play from another device while the board works away in a corner of the house. The module is planned for the remote panel, which already handles screen, terminal and AI.
planowane
Games on an external drive
A selector to install games on a USB SSD instead of the system disk. Steam ships as a Flatpak, so changing folder is not enough: the container needs the right permission, and that is exactly the part we want to take off the user's hands.
planowane
Configurable HUD and fan curve
The on-screen panel is tuned for the BC-250 today and hides itself on other machines. It will become an application that reads the sensors actually present and builds its own configuration. The fan curve editor lands in the Tuner alongside it.
planowane
Ukrainian reviewed by a native speaker
Polish was reviewed by a native speaker, and it shows. We are looking for someone to do the same for Ukrainian: if that is your language and you fancy lending a hand, you are welcome.
zrobionesierpień 2026
Restore points, and one command to go back
The system keeps five restore points, taken by itself before every upgrade, and lists them in the boot menu. skillfish-rollback takes you back to one of them for real, in a single command — your home directory is left alone.
zrobionesierpień 2026
Four languages, always falling back to English
Italian, English, Polish and Ukrainian across the applications, the login screen, the web panel and the installer slideshow. Plus a rule: if a translation is missing you get English, never Italian.
zrobioneczerwiec 2026
Eight cores instead of six
The board presents itself as 6 cores / 12 threads, but the two missing ones are switched off by configuration, not defective. SkillFishOS turns them back on at boot: +20% measured on multi-threaded work, with no BIOS changes.
Got an idea, or is something missing? Requests are welcome: write from the contact page or open a discussion on GitHub. Building what someone actually needs beats guessing well.
