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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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Apr 9 '25

CerbiStream: .NET Logging with Governance Enforcement, Queue Routing, and Developer-First Config

#dotnet #logging #devtools #opensource

2 min read

Chielo Chiamaka

Apr 8 '25

Linux File System

#opensource #linux #cloudwhistler #devops

4 min read

Anas T

Apr 8 '25

A Beginner's Guide to Auto-Instrumenting a Flask App with OpenTelemetry and SigNoz

#opensource #beginners #monitoring #opentelemetry

9 min read

Chen Debra

Mar 5 '25

Workflow Scheduling Must-Know! The Four Core Trends You Can't Ignore in 2025

#opensource #apachedolphinscheduler #programming #database

5 min read

NocoBase

Apr 8 '25

Top 15 Fastest-Growing Open-Source Low-Code Projects on GitHub in 2025

#opensource #github #lowcode #nocode

16 min read

Ali Alp

Apr 8 '25

🚀 Deep Dive into Resource Management in Kubernetes v1.32 (December 2024)

#kubernetes #productivity #opensource #devops

3 min read

Bonnie for CopilotKit

Mar 27 '25

How To Build Full-Stack AI Agents 🚀 (CrewAI + CopilotKit)

#webdev #programming #opensource #ai

28 min read

Yvonne

Apr 8 '25

Attention to Detail in Linux Commands

#devops #cloudwhistler #opensource #linux

3 min read

Nathan Tarbert for CopilotKit

Mar 28 '25

Build Full-Stack AI Agents with Custom React Components (CopilotKit + CrewAI)

#webdev #programming #opensource #ai

1 min read

Apr 7 '25

Nice open-source UI Tool to interact with kubernetes clusters

#cluster #kubernetes #k8s #opensource

3 min read

Apr 7 '25

30 Days of Linux Mastery: From RHCSA to RHCE using Real-World Challenge Series

#cloudwhistler #linux #devops #opensource

4 min read

Ezo Saleh

Apr 7 '25

Self-hosting LLMs for Production Systems: Solving the Model Quality Challenge

#llm #agents #opensource #go

6 min read

Apr 7 '25

Best community tech Discord servers to join

#discord #community #opensource

4 min read

Besworks

Apr 7 '25

Command Line Text Completions via Local LLM with GPT4All and NodeJS

#llm #nlp #node #opensource

9 min read

Apr 7 '25

Mastering the Linux File System – A Beginner's Guide

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

2 min read

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