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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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zynovex-support

Jun 17

Batfish marks Huawei VRP as unsupported — so I built a source-traceable IR for it

#networking #python #security #opensource

3 min read

benjamin

Jun 12

I committed a 200 MB file once. Never again — so I built a zero-dep pre-commit guard.

#showdev #git #devops #opensource

3 min read

Lyra

Jun 12

Stop Hand-Editing Fragile APT Lines: Practical deb822 `.sources` Files for Debian and Ubuntu

#linux #opensource #devops #tutorial

6 min read

Tsvetan Gerginov

Jun 12

I Got Tired of Downloading Email Attachments One by One, So I Built a Desktop App for It

#opensource #python #api #automation

3 min read

Lyra

Jun 12

Keep Your Base OS Clean: Practical `systemd-sysext` for Linux Tools and Overrides

#linux #systemd #opensource #devops

6 min read

Lyra

Jun 12

Make NFS Mounts Stop Blocking Boot on Linux: Practical `systemd.automount` with Idle Unmounts

#linux #systemd #opensource #devops

6 min read

Jun 12

Agent Sandbox Escape Detector: Black-Box Security Scanning for LLM Agents

#agents #python #machinelearning #opensource

6 min read

Tsvetan Gerginov

Jun 12

I've built a open source PDF-To-Excel-Converter

#opensource #python #webdev #programming

2 min read

Jun 12

8 of the World's Top-10 Open-Source LLMs Are Chinese. Here's How to Use Them All with One OpenAI-Compatible Key.

#ai #llm #openai #opensource

3 min read

benjamin

Jun 12

Two branches, the same migration number, one broken deploy. I built a zero-dep linter for that.

#showdev #database #devops #opensource

3 min read

Jun 16

The webhook inbox pattern: stop writing this controller by hand

#ruby #rails #webdev #opensource

4 min read

kent-tokyo

Jun 12

5 Features That Make chematic Stand Out as a Pure-Rust Cheminformatics Library

#rust #cheminformatics #webassembly #opensource

4 min read

Jun 12

A 150M model that beats GPT-4-as-judge at catching RAG hallucinations trained for $0

#machinelearning #ai #python #opensource

3 min read

Sriram Rampelli

Jun 16

The LLM Is Not the Final Authority: Building Trust Infrastructure for AI Agents

#ai #opensource #security #agents

9 min read

Jun 12

What I Learned Building a JavaScript Framework from Scratch at 18!

#javascript #webdev #opensource #architecture

2 min read

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