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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.

submission guidelines

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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Oct 10 '24

The Importance of Regular Software Updates and Patching Vulnerabilities

#security #webdev #opensource #devops

4 min read

Nasrul Hazim Bin Mohamad

Nov 13 '24

Now Open for Sponsorship: Help Me Keep Building for the Developer Community!

#opensource #laravel #php

3 min read

Dan Barr for Stacklok

Nov 12 '24

Your dependencies have dependencies: new features to assess risk

#news #opensource #security #supplychain

2 min read

Krav

Oct 23 '24

Secret Linux Commands:

#webdev #opensource #learning #security

1 min read

BestCodes

Dec 3 '24

Thank You For 20K Followers! 🥳

#discuss #webdev #opensource #watercooler

3 min read

Tingwei

Nov 12 '24

I made a hobby OS

#c #assembly #opensource

1 min read

Amir Mullagaliev

Nov 12 '24

Testing

#opensource

3 min read

Nov 12 '24

Open Source Contribution: Round 2

#opensource #svelte #typescript #testing

7 min read

Nov 12 '24

🚀 Introducing MonitorFlow: Your Open-Source SaaS for Real-Time Monitoring & Analytics 📊

#saas #opensource #analytics #monitoring

2 min read

Oct 23 '24

Mastering Terminal using Savvy' s AI

#devops #opensource #tutorial #kubernetes

2 min read

Sebastian Arrubia

Nov 12 '24

Creating Your First Project with Torpedo: A Step-by-Step Guide

#go #programming #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Penelopa for Red5

Nov 12 '24

How to Set Up a Free RTMP Server with Open Source Red5

#java #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Syakir

Nov 6 '24

I Built AlternateOSS, A Directory of Free, Open-source Alternatives to Popular Software 🚀🔥

#webdev #javascript #opensource #astro

3 min read

Nov 12 '24

Installing Arch Linux in UEFI systems(windows)

#linux #archlinux #opensource

7 min read

Nov 12 '24

A comparison of metadata configurations between Lobechat and Shadcn/ui

#javascript #lobechat #shadcn #opensource

4 min read

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