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ROCKNIX

ROCKNIX is a community developed Linux distribution for handheld gaming devices. Our goal is to produce an operating system that has the features and capabilities that we need, and to have fun as we develop it.

Licenses

ROCKNIX is a Linux distribution that is made up of many open-source components. Components are provided under their respective licenses. This distribution includes components licensed for non-commercial use only.

ROCKNIX Branding

ROCKNIX branding and images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

You are free to

• Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
• Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material

Under the following terms

• Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
• NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
• ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

ROCKNIX Software

Copyright (C) 2023 ROCKNIX (https://github.com/ROCKNIX)

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

Installation

• Download the latest version of ROCKNIX.
• Decompress the image.
• Write the image to an SDCARD using an imaging tool. Common imaging tools include Balena Etcher, Raspberry Pi Imager, and Win32 Disk Imager. If you're skilled with the command line, dd works fine too.

Documentation

Contribute

• Building ROCKNIX
• Code of Conduct
• Contributing to ROCKNIX
• Modifying ROCKNIX
• Adding Hardware Quirks
• Creating Packages
• Pull Request Template

Play

• Installing ROCKNIX
• Updating ROCKNIX
• Controls
• Netplay
• Configuring Moonlight
• Device Specific Documentation

Configure

• Optimizations
• Shaders
• Cloud Sync
• VPN

Other

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Donating to ROCKNIX

We are excited to announce the first release of ROCKNIX!

ROCKNIX is a custom linux gaming OS for Rockchip based handhelds. ROCKNIX started as a fork of JELOS by a few of the former JELOS team members. JELOS has reached EOL and will be archived. We took this opportunity to make a fresh start and start the new ROCKNIX project. All of the ROCKNIX builds (except for the RK3588 platform) use full stable upstream Linux, 6.8.2, and Mesa Panfrost GPUdrivers

Currently the following Rockhip SOC's and devices are supported:

• RK3588 (GameForce Ace)
• RK3326 (Anbernic RG351P/M/V, Hard Kernel OGS/OGA/OGA BE, Powkiddy RGB10, Game Console R33s/R36s/R35s, Magic XU10)
• RK3399 (Anbernic RG552)

While we are sad that the JELOS project is coming to an end we are excited what the future holds for the ROCKNIX project.

Note worthy changes since the last JELOS release:

• Update kernel to 6.8.2
• Update GPU driver to Mesa 24.1
• Add the SWAY Wayland compositor backend
• Add additional Emulation Station features for several emulators
• Additional emulator cores
• Bring back auto system folder generation
• Add Battery and Ram info to system information
• GameForce Ace now supports eMMc installation
• Drop several legacy BSP packages and patches no longer needed
• Fix bugs like MPV controls, Sway issues, etc

We would first like to thank @fewtarius for starting the JELOS project

And we would also like to thank the following community contributors for their commits pulled into this release:
@wwark, @plampix, @stolen, @citral23, @spycat88, @swilde, @Sparticuz, @octopuserectus, @Oendaril, @macromorgan

And finally thank you to everyone else who has contributed to JELOS, the Linux community as a whole, emulator developers, and every other FOSS project that ROCKNIX depends on.