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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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Mar 30

Self-Hosting Nextcloud on a Hetzner Ubuntu Server

#cloud #devops #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Mar 27

Self-Host Umami Analytics With Docker Compose

#docker #devops #webdev #opensource

9 min read

Mar 30

5 Awesome ownCloud Alternatives to consider in 2025

#cloud #devops #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Trần Viết Chính

Mar 27

Why Learn PHP?

#webdev #php #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

NeuralLang

Mar 26

Boosting Neural Networks with Automated Hyperparameter Optimization

#deeplearning #machinelearning #opensource #ai

5 min read

Mar 30

🧠 The Mesh is Coming: How We’re Building the Future of AI from the Ground Up

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #neuralnetworks

3 min read

Mar 26

Command line calculator in GO

#programming #tutorial #opensource #go

1 min read

Mar 26

Developing a WebRTC SFU library in Rust

#webrtc #sfu #rust #opensource

7 min read

ℵi✗✗

Mar 27

React Simple Select: A Lightweight and Customizable Select Component for React

#react #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Sayan Mondal for LitmusChaos

Mar 26

LitmusChaos is Heading to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 – Join the Chaos!

#litmuschaos #opensource #cloud #devops

4 min read

Xiao Yijun for Logto

Mar 26

Top 5 Open Source Identity and Access Management (IAM) providers 2025

#opensource #iam #ssoproviders

10 min read

NeuralLang

Mar 30

Neural DSL v0.2.5 Update: Explore Multi-Framework HPO Features

#machinelearning #deeplearning #python #opensource

3 min read

Syed Mudasser Anayat

Mar 26

Multimodal AI: The Future of Artificial Intelligence

#ai #multimodalai #opensource

3 min read

InterSystems Developer for InterSystems

Mar 25

SQLAchemy-iris with the latest version Python driver

#python #sql #programming #opensource

6 min read

Mar 30

Why Gas Fees Are Killing Web3 Adoption (And How We Fix It)

#webdev #ai #opensource #blockchain

1 min read

Carrie

Mar 25

Demystifying SafeLine WAF Performance

#beginners #opensource #waf #cybersecurity

2 min read

Syed Mudasser Anayat

Mar 25

AI in Healthcare: Transforming the Future of Medicine

#ai #medicine #opensource #machinelearning

3 min read

Mar 25

Day 3: Implementing the Visualizer Features

#opensource #programming #react #devjournal

3 min read

Mar 25

Automating Subscription Billing: The Smart Move for SaaS Growth

#devops #productivity #opensource #aws

3 min read

Okoye Ndidiamaka

Mar 25

The Power of Open Educational Resources (OER): How Free Knowledge is Transforming the World

#opensource #oer #selflearning #onlinecourses

2 min read

Wladislav Radchenko

Mar 25

Why My Open Source Project Wunjo Can’t Reach 1K Stars? 😢

#discuss #ai #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Apr 7

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

#cloudwhistler #linux #devops #opensource

4 min read

Mageshwaran Sekar

Mar 25

Should You Move to Kubernetes? Pros and Cons

#kubernetes #cloudnative #opensource

5 min read

ronynn

Mar 29

Getting my app into IzzyOnDroid: Making It Fully Reproducible

#android #github #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Besworks

Apr 7

Command Line Text Completions via Local LLM with GPT4All and NodeJS

#llm #nlp #node #opensource

9 min read

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