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May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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Riyana Patel for PullFlow

May 16

Project of the Week: HedgeDoc 🦔

#discuss #opensource #programming #hedgedoc

2 min read

OLUWADAMILOLA FASHINA

May 16

Keep Your Eyes on the End: Using the tail Command for Real-Time File Monitoring

#cloudwhistler #linux #opensource #regex

5 min read

May 16

Linux in Action: Mastering User Account Operations & Management

#cloudwhistler #devops #linux #opensource

3 min read

May 16

CForge – A Modern C++ Build System

#cforge #cpp #c #opensource

2 min read

OLUWADAMILOLA FASHINA

May 16

head Command – How to Preview File Content Without Opening the Whole Thing

#cloudwhistler #linux #opensource #regex

3 min read

May 16

The Best LibreOffice Alternative for Linux (and Beyond!) — My Unexpected Discovery

#opensource #linux #onlyoffice #software

2 min read

May 16

Try the new Secure Session Vault

#productivity #opensource #security #api

2 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

May 16

How to Install Qwen3-32B-GGUF Locally?

#qwen3 #opensource #ai #llm

5 min read

perber

May 16

LeafWiki – My Take on a Simpler, Self-Hosted Wiki

#opensource #markdown #wiki #devjournal

2 min read

May 16

How to Implement Scalable Filtering in Laravel with Laravel Sieve

#opensource #laravel #cleancode #filtering

4 min read

May 16

Unveiling Cryptographic Autonomy License 1.0: A Comprehensive Review and Future Outlook

#opensource #blockchain #licensing

7 min read

Serina

May 16

With SPL, It Seems We Don’t Need ORM Anymore

#news #programming #devops #opensource

3 min read

May 16

Surge Usage Documentation | A Powerful CLI Tool for Effortless Frontend Deploymentc

#frontend #staticwebapps #opensource #beginners

6 min read

Giovanni Panasiti

May 16

Unlock Active Storage: A Beautiful Dashboard for Your Rails App 🚀

#ruby #rails #opensource #github

3 min read

Prateek Agrawal

May 16

Wazuh: The Open-Source Security Monitoring Solution Every Development Team Needs in 2025

#devops #opensource #security #programming

5 min read

May 16

Introducing BlazeJob: A TypeScript Task Scheduler for Node.js 🚀

#typescript #node #opensource #automation

1 min read

Lovit

May 16

🚀 Lovit is Live: Smarter Error Handling for JS Developers

#webdev #javascript #opensource #typescript

1 min read

Nidhi

May 16

Beginner's Collaborative Design App with Real-Time Firebase Sync — Feedback Welcome!

#discuss #webdev #opensource #firebase

1 min read

NocoBase

May 16

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

6 min read

Sharon

May 16

Set It. Test It. Break It. This WAF Actually Fights Back.

#ai #websecurity #opensource #webdev

2 min read

AMAN

May 16

WEEK 2

#devops #opensource #career #learning

1 min read

May 16

Here’s how you can type check your CSS properties and values.

#opensource #react #typescript #inferno

3 min read

Sharon

May 16

Real-Time Threat Modeling with AI? This Open-Source WAF Does It.

#ai #opensource #devsecops #apisecurity

2 min read

May 16

Writing Concurrent Code in Go: Lessons from Using sync.WaitGroup

#backenddevelopment #opensource #go #performanceoptimization

6 min read

Zhang Wei

May 15

Unveiling the EU DataGrid Software License: A Deep Dive into Open Source, Fair Code, and Developer Empowerment

#opensource #faircode #developerempowerment

7 min read

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