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NU/Linux and FOSS Leftovers
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Desktop/Laptop
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XDA ☛ I moved away from Windows 11, but I didn't go to Linux [Ed: Running from prison to prison. Comment on top: "Just another paid by apple article on here"; "Exactly what i think. I'm 100% of my time on desktop. And all of that is on Linux. Linux Mint, btw, which i can recommend to anyone coming from windows. Faster. Easier."
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Open Hardware/Modding
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Hackaday ☛ Retro X86 With 486Tang
Tang FPGA boards are affordable, and [nand2mario] has been trying to get an x86 core running on one for a while. Looks like it finally worked out, as there is an early version of the ao486 design on a Tang FPGA board using a Gowin device. That core’s available on the MiSTer platform, which emulates games using an Altera Cyclone device.
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
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SaaS/Back End/Databases
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PostgreSQL ☛ pgFormatter v5.8 has been released
Dar Es Salam, Tanzania - September 14th, 2025
pgFormatter v5.8
This release adds several formatting improvements ans fixes some issues reported by users since the last release.
Here are the major improvements: [...]
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Standards/Consortia
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Hackaday ☛ UTF-8 Is Beautiful
It’s likely that many Hackaday readers will be aware of UTF-8, the mechanism for incorporating diverse alphabets and other characters such as 💩 emojis. It takes the long-established 7-bit ASCII character set and extends it into multiple bytes to represent many thousands of characters. How it does this may well be beyond that basic grasp, and [Vishnu] is here with a primer that’s both fascinating and easy to read.
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