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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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May 13 '25

Day 2: “Where Am I?” – Understanding the Linux File System in RHEL 9

#linux #beginners #opensource #cloudwhistler

3 min read

Chen Debra

Jun 12 '25

Troubleshooting DolphinScheduler Web Console Login Failures After Cluster Deployment

#apachedolphinscheduler #opensource #webconsole #programming

5 min read

May 12 '25

What I Learned Building My First VSCode Extension

#vscode #typescript #ai #opensource

7 min read

itsmeakhil

Jun 11 '25

We Built an Open-Source, Zero-Knowledge Password Manager — Here's Why (and How)

#opensource #programming #python #nextjs

3 min read

Prakash

Jun 10 '25

OpenFGA Studio - An Open Source Authorization Modeling Interface

#programming #typescript #openfga #opensource

3 min read

perber

Jun 10 '25

LeafWiki now supports ARM64 – run your Markdown wiki on Raspberry Pi

#devjournal #devops #raspberrypi #opensource

1 min read

fmerian

Jun 1 '25

Who's hiring — June 2025

#career #devrel #writing #opensource

2 min read

clxrity

Jun 9 '25

Learn to think like a programmer with the most amazing project series I found on YouTube

#nextjs #webdev #react #opensource

2 min read

May 8 '25

OpenSource on OpenSea: Bridging Collaboration and NFT Innovation

#opensource #nfts #opensea

9 min read

Chen Debra

Jun 17 '25

A CTO’s Guide to Open-Source Software: Answering the Top 10 FAQs

#cto #oos #opensource #career

8 min read

Lisa-Marie Namphy

May 7 '25

KubeCrash is Back May 8 — A Crash Course in Cloud Native, Open Source, and Platform Engineering

#platform #cloudnative #opensource #kubernetes

3 min read

Sharon

May 20 '25

DDoS, Crawlers, SQLi? SafeLine WAF Handles Them All

#websecurity #opensource #devops #safeline

4 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Jun 2 '25

📢We did it...

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

2 min read

May 6 '25

“Houston, We’ve Got a Firewall Problem” — A Day in the Life of a RHEL 9 Sysadmin

#linux #beginners #cloudwhistler #opensource

3 min read

Vladyslav

Jun 12 '25

BlackWave: How I Built a Social Network Simulator with Thousands of AI Bots and Why I Switched to Python

#discuss #ai #python #opensource

6 min read

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