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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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Daniel Davis for TrustGraph

Oct 28 '24

What does LLM Temperature Actually Mean?

#ai #aiops #rag #opensource

4 min read

Jessica Temporal

Oct 23 '24

Reflections from a maintainer and contributor during Hacktoberfest - is open source struggling?

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Shubham Bendkhale

Oct 24 '24

🎉My journey of Contributing at Hacktoberfest🚀

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Oct 28 '24

OpenBB vs Proprietary Tools: Why Open Source is the Future of Financial Analysis

#finance #opensource #programming #investing

4 min read

Vivesh

Oct 28 '24

Getting Started with Ansible: A Beginner's Guide

#ansible #opensource #devops #basic

3 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

Oct 17 '24

What is Platform Engineering?

#kubernetes #opensource #beginners #devops

4 min read

Jonathan VUILLEMIN

Oct 28 '24

Some Go demo applications with Yokai

#webdev #go #programming #opensource

1 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Oct 28 '24

How to deploy Granite Dense 2B and 8B on a Virtual Machine in the Cloud?

#aimodel #ai #opensource #granite3

5 min read

Kaciras

Sep 24 '24

ESBench: A modern benchmarking tool

#javascript #performance #opensource

3 min read

HstSethi

Oct 28 '24

I Completed Hacktoberfest 2024. Here is What I Loved and Hated

#hacktoberfest #opensource #hacktoberfest2024

1 min read

Chris Grams for Tidelift

Oct 17 '24

AI-based coding tools are thriving, and maintainers have some valid concerns about the impact on their work

#ai #opensource #survey

6 min read

Oct 28 '24

Coolify: server management the cool way

#opensource #cicd #systems

3 min read

Oct 28 '24

Install Docker Desktop on Windows

#docker #dockerdesktop #opensource #devops

3 min read

LineIcons

Oct 14 '24

21+ Best Free and Open-Source Icon Libraries for 2026

#icons #webdev #javascript #opensource

12 min read

Oct 28 '24

Building a Blazing-Fast URL Shortener in Go 🚀

#webdev #go #projects #opensource

2 min read

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