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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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Nixys

Sep 30 '24

The Essentials of Backup Rotation with nxs-backup

#devops #opensource #backup

6 min read

NocoBase

Sep 29 '24

5 Best Open-Source No-Code Tools for Project Management

#opensource #github #lowcode

9 min read

Tramposo

Sep 19 '24

Building a Terminal TODO App in Rust

#rust #terminal #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Sep 29 '24

Crypt::OpenSSL::PKCS12 1.93 released to CPAN

#opensource #perl #release #openssl

1 min read

Ghoshan J

Aug 31 '24

My First KubeCon Experience: KubeCon 2024 Hong Kong

#kubecon #opensource #platform

2 min read

Arindam Majumder

Sep 30 '24

7 Open-Source Events You Can Participate in this Hacktoberfest — Win Cool Swags 🎁

#opensource #webdev #beginners #hacktoberfest

7 min read

Sep 29 '24

Using LLaMA Models with Groq: A Beginner's Guide

#ai #python #opensource #webdev

3 min read

NocoBase

Sep 29 '24

Deep Dive: Low Code/No Code Integration Capabilities

#opensource #github #lowcode #development

6 min read

Adithya Nangarath

Sep 29 '24

Comparing Open-Source LLMs like Hugging Face Transformers with Closed Platforms

#llm #opensource #gpt3 #spheron

5 min read

Sep 8 '24

Why Open-Source Contributions Might Be Your Best Bet for Getting Hired as a Developer in the AI Era

#beginners #opensource #learning #webdev

4 min read

Francesco Ciulla

Sep 21 '24

Why might Rust be a smart choice for developers today?

#programming #opensource #rust #beginners

1 min read

FreeCoderX

Sep 28 '24

经过2个多月终于把我的github Sponsor弄好

#github #sponsor #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Navemics

Aug 25 '24

🚀 New open-source alert!

#opensource #api #devtools #testing

1 min read

Sep 27 '24

LINUX Systems Under Attack via Printing System (CUPS)

#security #linux #opensource #ubuntu

5 min read

Abby Nduta

Sep 28 '24

Debugging DevStack

#opensource #openstack #webdev #cloud

2 min read

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