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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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Mezjun

Dec 13 '24

Looking for Feedback: Affordable Mini VPS with IPv6 for Testing and Development – What Do You Need?

#devops #docker #opensource #development

2 min read

Jan 21

How Programming Will Look In the Future?

#discuss #programming #opensource #news

2 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

Jan 23

Why we’re betting on Kubernetes (and you should too)

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #tooling

4 min read

arjun

Jan 16

File System Management in Operating Systems

#git #opensource #ios #android

3 min read

Kevin

Jan 16

AI Software Development: Best Practices for Building Smarter Applications

#webdev #ai #opensource

3 min read

Jan 16

List filenames recursively in a directory using this utility function.

#filesystem #node #opensource #recursive

2 min read

Amir Mullagaliev

Jan 16

OSD700: Become a Maintainer

#opensource #ai

2 min read

Jan 5

A Beginner’s Guide to GSSOC, SWOC, Open Source and the GitHub Glow-Up

#git #github #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Sibelius Seraphini for Woovi

Jan 27

How to self-host any open source service?

#selfhosted #opensource #kubernetes #docker

4 min read

Dec 12 '24

💧 📉 💧 Are you wasting money & time: does your data have a leak? 💧 📉 💧

#opensource #computervision #machinelearning #leakysplits

2 min read

Domenico Tenace for This is Learning

Jan 13

Uno Platform is the revolution 🛸

#csharp #dotnet #opensource #softwaredevelopment

4 min read

arjun

Jan 15

Memory Management in Operating Systems

#memory #opensource #core #softwaredevelopment

3 min read

Jurjen de Vries

Jan 15

2025: The Year of Decentralization – How Nostr Will Make You a Standout Developer

#webdev #opensource #web3 #beginners

11 min read

Kafeel Ahmad (kaf shekh)

Jan 15

10 Must-Bookmark Open Source Projects for Developers

#webdev #javascript #opensource #tutorial

8 min read

Nikolaos Sagiadinos

Jan 29

SpicyCamCast: Lightweight Camera and Screencast Integration for JavaScript

#webcam #screencast #javascript #opensource

2 min read

James Blackwood-Sewell for Timescale

Jan 14

TimescaleDB in 2024: Making Postgres Faster

#postgres #opensource #database #ai

6 min read

XploitCore

Jan 15

KDE vs GNOME vs Others: Choosing the Best Linux Desktop Environment in 2025

#tutorial #opensource #linux #performance

2 min read

Jenuel Oras Ganawed

Jan 14

Animation Library You Can Use for your Web Apps

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

2 min read

Meta4ickal Mutant

Dec 12 '24

🚀 DevFlow Pro: A Lightning-Fast Rust-Based AI-Enhanced Code Analyzer

#rust #opensource #programming #tooling

2 min read

Jan 4

Getting Started with Git and GitHub: A Beginner's Guide

#git #github #beginners #opensource

7 min read

Jan 15

assert in Nodejs and its usage in Grida source code

#grida #opensource #nextjs #node

3 min read

Jan 15

Contribute to `real-to-sim-to-real` in SmilingRobo Open-Source Sprint!

#programming #opensource #python #beginners

1 min read

Mageshwaran Sekar

Jan 15

Exploring the CNCF Landscape: Overview of Cloud Native Technologies

#cncf #cloudnative #opensource

2 min read

Judy

Dec 16 '24

The Data Lake’s Impossible Triangle

#discuss #programming #devops #opensource

10 min read

Dariel Vila for KaibanJS

Jan 14

Supercharge Your JavaScript Agents with Firecrawl in KaibanJS

#javascript #ai #opensource #coding

3 min read

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