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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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Igor Giamoniano

Apr 14

How to Remove Orphan Linux Boot Entries from Windows 11 UEFI

#linux #opensource #tutorial #beginners

3 min read

Apr 14

Bugmageddon Is Real. But Bug Discovery Isn’t the Real Bottleneck Anymore.

#security #ai #opensource #programming

2 min read

Alan West

Apr 14

Open-Weight AI Model Licenses Compared: What MiniMax's Controversy Means for You

#ai #opensource #llm #machinelearning

5 min read

Apr 14

Building a Resilience Layer for Mobile AI: How I handle 429s, Provider Fragmentation, and Streaming in React Native

#ai #reactnative #expo #opensource

2 min read

Mohammad Ismail Mirza

Apr 14

I Spent 12 Hours Debugging PostHog Self-Hosting So You Don't Have To

#ai #posthog #opensource

3 min read

Apr 14

Building and battle-testing a Laravel package with AI peers

#ai #laravel #opensource #php

7 min read

Kai Builds

Apr 28

Common Docker Compose Security Mistakes in Self-Hosted Homelabs

#docker #selfhosted #opensource #security

5 min read

vdalhambra

Apr 14

Why your MCP is probably scored below 70 on Glama (and how to fix it in an afternoon)

#mcp #ai #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Joey

Apr 14

Building a Consciousness Monitor for AI Agents: Inside Hermes HUDUI

#webdev #ai #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Lucas Neves Pereira

Apr 27

I added voice messages to my self-hosted AI agent, for free

#go #ai #discord #opensource

5 min read

Apr 13

What is Apache Arrow? Erasing the Serialization Tax

#architecture #dataengineering #opensource #performance

3 min read

Ejibode Ibraheem

Apr 14

Understanding the Lusophone Wikimedia Wishlist: Improving Contributor Experience

#wikimedia #outreachy #opensource #python

3 min read

Francis

Apr 14

Resume-tailor-Skill

#ai #career #claude #opensource

1 min read

Awa Destiny Aghangu

Apr 14

How to Get Your First Accepted Contribution in Outreachy

#beginners #career #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Apr 14

ARForge v1.2.0 — Schema-valid ARXML, SubComposition support, and zero checker errors

#autosar #embedded #opensource #automotive

4 min read

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