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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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Muhammed Shafin P

Jul 15

Thalunix: A Conceptual QEMU Manager for Simplified Virtualization

#thalunix #opensource #virtualization #conceptualdesign

2 min read

Jul 14

How to Remotely Access Your Raspberry Pi Server Outside Your Network with Tunnelmole

#remote #iot #opensource #javascript

5 min read

NocoBase

Jun 12

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #nocode #lowcode #opensource

8 min read

ISNDEV

Jun 11

Blazing-Fast C++ Web Services with `qbm-http`

#cpp #webdev #opensource #api

4 min read

ISNDEV

Jun 11

Meet `qb`: The High-Performance C++17 Actor Framework You've Been Waiting For

#cpp #distributedsystems #opensource #github

4 min read

ISNDEV

Jun 11

Beyond Threads: A Guide to the Actor Model in C++ with `qb`

#cpp #distributedsystems #opensource

3 min read

ISNDEV

Jun 11

Unlocking True Parallelism: A Guide to Multi-Core C++ with `qb`

#cpp #distributedsystems #opensource #github

4 min read

Jul 14

Contributing to a well-known Open Source project

#opensource #programming

1 min read

Jul 14

MCP: Conectando LLMs a dados e ferramentas com estilo

#devops #opensource #learning #machinelearning

2 min read

Jul 14

The Opposite of Loneliness

#discuss #webdev #opensource #community

2 min read

Anton Grebenkin

Jul 14

FlashEvents: A Free, Simple Alternative to MediatR Notification Publisher

#csharp #pubsub #dotnet #opensource

4 min read

Prasun Chakraborty

Jul 14

Advanced Form Handling Angular 20 - Dynamic Portfolio Builder and File Upload System

#angular #webdev #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Jul 12

Implementing App notifications: The FOSS way

#opensource #mobile #android

7 min read

Jul 13

Automate the Boring Stuff! Check Out This Open-Source Tool

#automation #opensource #n8n

5 min read

Jul 12

Self-hosting Qdrant the easy way

#ai #opensource #cloud #devops

4 min read

Chitransh Soral

Jun 9

DeadLock - JSON Parsing #3

#python #opensource #datascience #machinelearning

1 min read

Jul 13

Automate, Curate, Share: Building an Open Source Reading List

#discuss #opensource #productivity #learning

3 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Jul 15

Stripe-To-Postgres Sync Engine as standalone Library

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Jul 13

GSoC Week 6: Deep Diving into the Interactive Book Issue

#opensource #flutter #dart

3 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Jul 13

Natural Language Processing from Basics to Advanced: The Complete Guide for Innovators

#ai #devtools #opensource #machinelearning

7 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Jul 13

Mastering Regex in NLP: From Tokenization to Advanced Pattern Mining

#ai #opensource #devtools #machinelearning

6 min read

tsuruko

Jul 13

[Python] Smarter Conditions, Still No Ifs—Triggon Just Got Better

#python #opensource #automation #programming

2 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Jun 23

Earl dan Erlang: Dua Bahasa, Dua Dunia

#programming #opensource #devjournal #indonesia

2 min read

Pavel

Jul 2

I Got Tired of Build Tools, So I Built a JS Framework for Instant UI Prototyping

#javascript #programming #opensource

2 min read

Mak Sò

Jul 13

🧠 How AI Agents Learned to Agree Through Structured Debate

#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

8 min read

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