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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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Muhammad Zulqernain Zahid

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Getting Comfortable with the Command Line (30-Day RHCSA + Ansible Journey)

#cloudwhistler #linux #devops #opensource

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Ben Greenberg for Couchbase

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Build Your First Open Source AI Agent

#ai #opensource #python #tutorial

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Unveiling PHP License 3.0: Balancing Fairness and Innovation in Software Licensing

#phplicense30 #opensource #fairlicensing

3 min read

Yvonne

Apr 15 '25

Tighten Security on EC2 Instances: Fast and Simple

#devops #cloudwhistler #opensource #linux

3 min read

Daniel Davis for TrustGraph

Apr 14 '25

The Symphony of the AI System

#ai #aiops #opensource

3 min read

Valery Zinchenko for denshya

Apr 14 '25

SSR with Full DOM Support

#webdev #opensource #frontend #javascript

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Apr 14 '25

Linux in Action - File Structure Hierarchy and Its Role in Modern Business

#cloudwhistler #devops #opensource #linux

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Apr 14 '25

Linux Essentials: Taming Files & Directories Like a Terminal Boss

#cloudwhistler #devops #linux #opensource

3 min read

Yvonne

Apr 14 '25

Bash Script to Back Up and EC2 Instance

#devops #cloudwhistler #opensource #linux

5 min read

Chielo Chiamaka

Apr 14 '25

Linux Group Management

#cloudwhistler #linux #opensource

2 min read

Apr 14 '25

Real-Time Handbook Management Web Development Solution

#discuss #opensource #database #nextjs

1 min read

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Python snake game : AI (based on pathfinding)

#opensource #python #programming #ai

1 min read

Yvonne

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Add or Update a Tag on an EC2 Instance Using AWS CLI

#devops #cloudwhistler #opensource #linux

2 min read

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What is Corda Java SDK? A New Era of Enterprise Blockchain Innovation

#cordajavasdk #enterpriseblockchain #opensource

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Yuri for Supabase

Apr 1 '25

Postgres Language Server: Initial Release

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

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