SkillFishOS is a Debian-based Linux distribution designed primarily for the AMD BC-250 compute board. It uses KDE Plasma and seeks to turn the inexpensive mining-oriented board into a ready-to-use desktop computer and gaming console.
The distribution includes a customised kernel, hardware-specific patches, clock and thermal profiles, and graphical tools for controlling the BC-250’s CPU, GPU, fan and Compute Units. It also ships with a gaming and emulation stack, a steampunk-themed desktop, automatic system snapshots, and a collection of native management applications. A generic edition is available for other x86-64 computers and virtual machines.
Key Features
- Provides a customised linux-tkg kernel with BC-250-specific patches.
- Offers optional control of the board’s disabled CPU cores and GPU Compute Units.
- Includes a graphical Tuner for clocks, voltages, fan speed and thermal profiles.
- Ships with Steam, Heroic, Proton, gamescope, GameMode and MangoHud.
- Provides EmuDeck and ES-DE for installing and managing emulators.
- Uses Btrfs with Snapper and grub-btrfs for automatic snapshots and bootable rollback.
- Includes a steampunk theme spanning GRUB, Plymouth, SDDM and KDE Plasma.
- Provides a live system display showing processor load, clocks, temperatures, power consumption and fan speed.
- Includes native utilities for kernel management, system monitoring, mounting ISO images and installing software.
- Offers a web-based Remote Manager with telemetry, terminal access, software management and KVM functionality.
- Includes a local AI stack accelerated through Vulkan.
- Receives tested packages through the project’s signed APT repository.
- Uses the Calamares graphical system installer.
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | KDE Plasma |
| Init Software: | systemd |
| Package Management: | APT |
| Release Model: | Fixed |
| Platforms: | x86_64 |
| Home Page: | skillfishos.com |
| Developer: | MTSistemi |
| This article is part of our Big List of Active Linux Distributions. |
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