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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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Sep 1

I Built a GPT Model from Scratch in C++ (Runs on 2GB RAM!)

#machinelearning #deeplearning #opensource #cpp

2 min read

Narsagna

Sep 1

Track your GitHub Aura ✨

#ai #opensource #github

1 min read

Leo Song

Sep 4

OneTerm: The Open-Source Bastion Host I Refactored in Three Months

#opensource #devops #aws #security

3 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Sep 1

How to Install & Run Qwen Image

#qwen #ai #genai #opensource

7 min read

LetsCloud Team for LetsCloud Inc

Sep 2

Glances vs Top: Which Is the Best Monitoring Tool for Linux Servers?

#productivity #devops #opensource #performance

2 min read

Judy

Sep 1

List the management structure tree--SPL Programming Practice

#programming #devops #opensource #spl

3 min read

Abdalrhman Emad Saad

Sep 1

Stop Writing Messy Queries in Laravel — Meet kettasoft/filterable 🚀

#php #laravel #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Hitesh Sachdeva

Sep 5

Why I’m Excited About Open Source

#opensource #beginners

2 min read

Mysterious Xuanwu

Sep 1

Open-Sourcing Sora: A Community's Epic Quest

#opensource #ai #texttovideo #sora

4 min read

Sep 1

MDM Software Functionalities That Improve IT Security

#security #opensource #mobile #software

4 min read

Sep 11

Introducing SnippetShot – A VS Code Extension for Clean Code Screenshots

#webdev #vscode #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Sep 4

DetectPack Forge: Natural-Language to Sigma/KQL/SPL

#showdev #ai #cybersecurity #opensource

2 min read

Aug 31

Personal Dashboard — new-tab extension with dynamic backgrounds, weather, quick links & daily facts

#webdev #javascript #opensource #frontend

1 min read

Aug 31

How to Get a Webhook Online: A Developer's Guide

#webhook #node #javascript #opensource

8 min read

Sep 4

GNU openVBS - VBScript,Reborn

#programming #python #opensource #automation

5 min read

Okerew

Aug 31

Introducing OD

#neovim #plugin #debugging #opensource

1 min read

Dark Tech Insights

Sep 4

The Dark Reality of Open Source: Why Developers Must Rethink 'Free Software'

#opensource #security #programming #developer

3 min read

Sep 4

IMake: Bringing Builds Back to Makefile’s Essence — An Unprecedentedly Simple Experience

#linux #opensource #devops #programming

5 min read

Aug 31

Stop leaking .env files - try Secretsnap (free CLI)

#security #opensource #cli #programming

1 min read

Browsely

Aug 30

Symfony as JWT provider

#webdev #php #opensource #programming

8 min read

idanlodzki

Sep 3

Early-stage open-source project: OpsiMate

#opensource #monitoring #devops

1 min read

Sreenath

Sep 3

How a Hackathon Rejection Became 6,000+ PyPI Downloads

#showdev #python #opensource #ai

2 min read

Radosław

Sep 3

Maia - Multi-AI Agent Test Framework

#ai #python #opensource #testing

2 min read

Aug 30

Cashie Budget Planner

#webdev #planner #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Aug 31

I built a tool that turns GitHub PRs into blog posts — looking for feedback

#sideprojects #github #ai #opensource

2 min read

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