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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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Feb 21

How to check node version programmatically?

#opensource #javascript #node #npm

2 min read

Feb 7

Open Source Tools for Managing Homeless Assistance Programs

#discuss #opensource #civictech

1 min read

Penelopa

Feb 7

How to Migrate from Wowza Streaming Engine to Red5 Pro? 2025 Update

#java #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Penelopa

Feb 7

How to Set Up a Free RTMP Server with Open Source Red5

#java #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Feb 7

Django Codebase Updates: January 2025

#django #opensource #python #webdev

2 min read

Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Feb 28

Cloud Deployment Tools Roundup 2025

#opensource #cloud #programming #backend

4 min read

Mateusz Wypchlak

Feb 6

Simple QML models

#qml #machinelearning #quantumcomputing #opensource

1 min read

panaetov

Feb 6

What is DDTM (Data Driven Team Management)?

#captainbridge #ddtm #opensource #management

2 min read

NocoBase

Feb 20

How to Implement Registered User Review in NocoBase

#opensource #tutorial #lowcode #nocode

7 min read

Jian Reis for Roadie

Feb 6

Backstage Adoption: The Day 2 Problem

#backstage #opensource #webdev #internaldeveloperportal

5 min read

Terrateam for Terrateam

Feb 6

Migrating from Terraform to OpenTofu

#terraform #infrastructureascode #devops #opensource

1 min read

Feb 27

What They Don’t Tell You About Project Listings Could Change Your Entire Business!

#beginners #react #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Mehmet T. AKALIN

Feb 6

SomniumSage: AI-Powered Dream Interpreter

#opensource #ai #dream

1 min read

Nikola Stojiljkovic

Feb 6

JaCoCo XML to HTML - my new FOSS tool written completely in PowerShell

#jacoco #java #powershell #opensource

1 min read

Lara Lee

Feb 6

Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen2.5-Max Secures Top Rankings in Chatbot Arena

#opensource #ai #qwen #alibabacloud

2 min read

Feb 10

Bind Mount

#docker #opensource #bindmount #cloud

4 min read

TheoForger

Feb 6

Sprint 2 - Getting Stuck A Little

#opensource #beginners #rust

3 min read

Uday Rana

Feb 6

Rust? Never Heard of It. Anyway, Here’s My PR.

#opensource

3 min read

Fernando Guerra

Feb 28

8 Open-Source Tools to Bootstrap Your SaaS 🚀

#opensource #python #react #bootstrap

3 min read

Eze Lanza

Feb 6

Top 4 Takeaways from DeepSeek-R1

#ai #llm #deepseek #opensource

2 min read

MandyTrl

Feb 19

Github - Comment protéger sa branche (les Branch Protection Rules)

#github #ruleset #opensource #bestpractices

3 min read

Ericson Willians

Feb 6

Building Ardour from Source on Linux: A Comprehensive Guide

#audio #linux #tutorial #opensource

7 min read

Team Timescale for Timescale

Feb 28

8 Postgres Extensions You Need to Know

#opensource #postgres #database #productivity

6 min read

Feb 5

Setting up Bee-Stack on MacOS Intel

#tutorial #ai #opensource #python

2 min read

Aadarsh Lalchandani

Feb 5

Introducing 'aasetpy'

#python #devops #opensource #productivity

2 min read

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