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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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Sana Muhammad Sadiq

Apr 30

Changing Group Ownership in Linux: Mastering the chgrp Command

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

Raghav

Apr 29

Introducing Nixopus - All in one Open Source VPS Management Solution

#webdev #opensource #cloud #go

7 min read

May 4

Introducing holo-fn: A Minimal Functional Library for TypeScript

#programming #opensource #typescript #functional

4 min read

Miguel CA

May 3

A Next.js Starter for Music/Video SaaS --Would You Use It?

#nextjs #webdev #saas #opensource

1 min read

Apr 29

safeJsonParse utility in Suna, an open source generalist AI agent.

#suna #opensource #nextjs #json

3 min read

Apr 29

Universal Celestial Intelligence (UCI) - A Self-Evolving Julia Framework

#julialang #universalcelestialintelligence #programming #opensource

3 min read

Mangesh

Apr 29

#Elasticsearch # 🚀 Why Elasticsearch May Block When Updating Large Indexes — And How To Fix It

#opensource #elasticsearch #dba

3 min read

HexShift

May 2

How to Create Governance Tokens with Zero Budget

#cryptocurrency #blockchain #web3 #opensource

3 min read

Apr 28

I vibe coded this simple sticky todo notes app

#javascript #webdev #opensource #sideprojects

1 min read

Quy Vu

Apr 28

Introduce a new way of distributed data mapping-OfX

#dotnet #programming #opensource #softwaredevelopment

1 min read

VASHANTHA KUMAR K.S

Apr 28

🚀 Docker Image Creation and Pushing to DockerHub: Step-by-Step Guide

#webdev #tutorial #devops #opensource

2 min read

HexShift

May 3

How to Create Loyalty and Reward Tokens With Zero Budget

#cryptocurrency #blockchain #opensource

3 min read

Oleksandr Dehtiarov

Apr 28

Telegram Mini Apps: Key Trends and Business Opportunities for 2025

#opensource #telegram #api

6 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 28

Linux Boot Process

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

4 min read

Prog. Kanishk Raj

Apr 29

Introducing ProXtyle: A Professional & Modern CSS Framework

#webdev #opensource #css #proxtyle

1 min read

Apr 28

🚀 Live Chat Support Starter Kit — Open Source!

#opensource #nextjs #socketio #webdev

1 min read

Webb

Apr 28

The Fread Project is Now Open Source, Based on Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform

#programming #opensource #kotlin #android

2 min read

May 2

🚀 upup – a drop-in React uploader for AWS S3, DigitalOcean, Backblaze, GCP & Azure w/ GDrive and OneDrive user integration!

#react #webdev #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Apr 28

Blockchain, NFTs, and Open-Source in Music Industry: A Harmonious Transformation

#blockchain #nfts #opensource

8 min read

xavki

May 2

Essential Guide to ConfigMaps and Secrets in Kubernetes

#kubernetes #devops #opensource

5 min read

Muhammad Zulqernain Zahid

Apr 28

Nerds Go to War: Why Linux and Red Hat Certified Heroes Matter

#cloudwhistler #linux #devops #opensource

3 min read

RisingWave Labs

Apr 28

Is RisingWave the Next Apache Flink?

#discuss #productivity #opensource #datascience

6 min read

NocoBase

Apr 28

How One Furniture Factory Built Its Own ERP—No Coding Needed

#opensource #erp #nocode #lowcode

8 min read

May 2

Understanding and Navigating the Risks of Forking Open-Source Projects: Strategies for Sustainable Development

#opensource #forking #riskmanagement

9 min read

Mangesh

Apr 27

Neo4j Tutorial: # 📚 Handling Neo4j Database Consistency Errors — With a Real-Life Example and Visuals

#neo4j #graphql #opensource #dba

2 min read

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