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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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Aniket Raj

Jun 28

Project KARL AI

#ai #programming #kotlin #opensource

1 min read

May 25

Building Ledger the right way

#fintech #opensource #learning #aws

3 min read

Sharon

May 29

Build a Full Web Security Wall from Scratch — What Can SafeLine WAF Do?

#devsecops #safeline #waf #opensource

3 min read

May 29

How a Simple Arch Linux Installation Made Me Accidentally Study Operating Systems

#archlinux #linux #opensource #programming

3 min read

Phoenix Storm Jr.

May 24

Ultra Fast Colab I Just Deleted Pip from a Colab Notebook, and IT STILL WORKED!

#notebook #python #opensource #github

1 min read

Jayant Navrange

Jul 1

Minecraft server status in readme/signature

#node #javascript #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

fmerian

Jun 26

Did Appwrite do the ideal Product Hunt launch?

#showdev #startup #marketing #opensource

2 min read

Yash Modi

Jun 27

16-Year-Old’s Journey to Building a Portfolio Website 🚀

#webdev #programming #portfolio #opensource

2 min read

Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi)

Jun 27

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#webdev #opensource #programming #tooling

2 min read

PHANI KUMAR KOLLA

Jun 27

Level Up Your Dev Game: The Top 15 GitHub Repositories You NEED to Follow in 2025!

#github #opensource #programming #developers

4 min read

LaTerral Williams

May 29

✨Linux Wizardry Continued: SUID, SGID, and the Sticky Bit

#cloudwhistler #linux #cloud #opensource

3 min read

Angshu Roy

Jun 27

[veld-fm] I Built a Terminal File Manager with Tiling Panels Because I'm Obsessed with Keyboard Shortcuts

#python #terminal #linux #opensource

3 min read

Jul 7

Reactive HTML Without JavaScript Frameworks 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

3 min read

Mauro

Jun 26

Turning my Resume Into an Interactive Game : ReactJs & Go

#react #go #opensource #webdev

1 min read

SetraTheX

Jun 26

How I Built a Smarter ZIP Engine with AI: My Day 9 & 10 Journey (Pagonic Project)

#ai #opensource #softwareengineering #python

7 min read

Jun 25

How to add Bug Tracking to your Apps (Free Open Source Tool) - Bugsink 🐞

#webdev #javascript #docker #opensource

5 min read

Satyabrata

Jun 25

So you want to become better than 99% of programmers, right?

#career #programming #opensource #learning

2 min read

DCT Technology Pvt. Ltd.

Jun 27

Real-World Project Management: The Unwritten Rules

#opensource #softwareengineering #webdev #devresolutions2024

3 min read

May 24

Developing a High Frequency Trading Software

#programming #beginners #opensource #softwaredevelopment

1 min read

May 24

First Contributions: learn how to contribute to open source projects

#opensource #beginners #tutorial

1 min read

Aniket Raj

Jun 27

Project KARL - AI

#ai #programming #opensource #kotlin

1 min read

Hritik Raj

May 28

Building a Distributed Voting App with Docker: A Hands-On Guide

#devops #docker #beginners #opensource

3 min read

May 23

Day 30 of #30DayLinuxChallenge — From “Wait, What’s a Terminal?” to “Let’s Partition This Thing!”

#linux #beginners #cloudwhistler #opensource

3 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Jun 26

LLMs Under Fire: Red Teaming with DeepTeam + Ollama

#deepteam #opensource #llm #ollama

10 min read

Supun Wickramarachchi

May 23

🚀 Building My Own Mars Rover Simulator with Python & Tkinter

#softwareengineering #programming #python #opensource

2 min read

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