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
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.

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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.

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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.

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Btrfs snapshots

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

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On-device AI

An Ollama + OpenWebUI stack accelerated in Vulkan on the integrated GPU. Chat and coding models running at home, no cloud.

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

On-device AI, one click away

A dedicated panel turns the local AI engine (Qwen on the Vulkan GPU) on or off. Web chat, a coding terminal and management: AI runs at home, and frees the GPU when it's time to play.

Tuner di SkillFishOS

One-click tuning

The Tuner adjusts clocks, undervolt, fan and Compute Units with four ready presets (Stock, Performance, Turbo, Crazy) and a thermal-guard that protects the hardware. All the power, safely, with no command line.

Hardware

Born for the AMD BC-250.

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

6× Zen 2
"Oberon" CPU · up to 4.0 GHz
RDNA 2
"Cyan Skillfish" GPU · 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 three editions: AMD BC-250, Generic (any x86-64 PC/VM) and Slim.

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