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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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Abdelkader Boudih

Apr 11

LLMs and the Ossification of APIs: Are We Stuck with Prehistoric Patterns?

#ruby #api #ai #opensource

11 min read

Team TigerData for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Apr 11

⚙️ SQL Patterns for Optimizing IoT Queries in TimescaleDB

#postgres #sql #opensource #database

4 min read

OLUWADAMILOLA ADETUGBOBO

Apr 24

The Cloud Security Blind Spots: What Most Cloud Engineers Don’t Know About Linux Security

#cloudwhistler #opensource #linux #redhat

5 min read

Mar 8

Unlocking the Secret to 90% Smaller Logs: How Flowgger Transforms Your Logging Strategy

#programming #devops #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Mar 8

Understanding Runlevels in Linux: A Complete Guide

#devops #sysadmins #opensource #cloud

3 min read

Dmitry Protsenko

Apr 11

How I made Docker linter for IntelliJ IDEA (and other JetBrains IDE)

#programming #opensource #ide #beginners

7 min read

Mar 12

Unveiling the Unsung Hero: The zlib License

#zliblicense #opensource #minimalism

3 min read

Ragul.M

Mar 12

Deploying a Two-Tier Web Application on AWS with MySQL and Apache

#aws #awschallenge #opensource

4 min read

Apr 11

My Learnings About Etcd

#kubernetes #programming #opensource #etcd

3 min read

Apr 11

Here's how Nue.js applies colors to the console output in the CLI.

#react #opensource #nuejs #cli

2 min read

Apr 10

Personalised creator-badge and sound player?

#javascript #nextjs #github #opensource

1 min read

Valery Zinchenko for denshya

Apr 10

The Prove of No-Framework principal - TamaJs

#news #webdev #opensource #frontend

6 min read

Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Apr 22

Migrating from Rails to Go and keeping strong conventions

#rails #go #opensource #webdev

8 min read

Mar 12

Unveiling a New Era of Fair Open Source Licensing

#opensource #reciprocalpubliclicense #fairlicensing

3 min read

Yvonne

Apr 10

Systemctl Basics: Managing Your Linux Services

#devops #cloudwhistler #opensource #linux

3 min read

Oliver Ip

Mar 7

Project Release: Fix My Signal

#programming #beginners #opensource #github

1 min read

Franco

Apr 10

Do You Know MinIO? A Self-hosted S3 Alternative

#minio #docker #node #opensource

2 min read

Srujan

Mar 21

Cautions in the open-source AI-era

#opensource #security #deepseek #ai

1 min read

Aakanksha Sharma

Apr 10

What Makes Hyvä a Smarter Frontend Choice for Adobe Commerce

#magneto #opensource #frontend #performance

3 min read

Yvonne

Apr 10

Linux Search Commands: Essential Tools for Incidence Response

#devops #cloudwhistler #opensource #linux

4 min read

Alex Kup

Apr 10

LazyJournal: A Terminal User Interface for Logs

#go #opensource #linux #tui

4 min read

Apr 10

Day 2 of My 30 Days of Linux Mastery: Core Linux Commands and File System Hierarchy

#cloudwhistler #linux #devops #opensource

7 min read

RisingWave Labs

Apr 10

Twitter's 600-Tweet Daily Limit Crisis: Soaring GCP Costs and the Open Source Fix Elon Musk Ignored

#twitter #googlecloud #opensource #datascience

6 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

Apr 3

From Helm Chart to Developer UI in 5 Minutes

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Mar 11

Unveiling GNU GPL v3: A Deep Dive into the World of Open Source Licenses

#gplv3 #opensource #copyleft

3 min read

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