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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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Linux Challenge #1: The Power of Basics – Can You Automate This?

#cloudwhistler #linux #devops #opensource

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Why I’m Building a Free Study Platform for Bihar Board Students — And How You Can Help!

#javascript #opensource #beginners #100daysofcode

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Sana Muhammad Sadiq

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File Compression & Archiving with tar, gzip and bzip2

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

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Stuck on Side Projects? GitHub’s Hiding Your Exit Plan

#webdev #programming #github #opensource

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xavki

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Ultimate Guide to Container Runtimes: From Docker to RunC and Beyond

#docker #devops #opensource #container

5 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

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A Step-By-Step Guide to Running AgenticSeek Locally: No API Needed

#ai #deepseek #opensource #programming

8 min read

The Programming Tomato

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Screw Code Assessments

#discuss #opensource #career

1 min read

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Open Source Project Sponsorship Tips Explained

#opensource #sponsorship #funding

8 min read

Lightning Developer

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Top Open-Source Multi-Cloud Management Platforms in 2025

#webdev #devops #opensource #cloud

5 min read

Peter Strøiman

May 5 '25

Why You Should Boycott VS Code

#vscode #opensource #programming #tooling

7 min read

Linghua Jin for CocoIndex

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Real-Time Knowledge Graph for Product recommendation with LLM taxonomy extraction

#showdev #opensource #programming #python

7 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

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How to Install Falcon 3 Locally?

#falcon3 #ai #llm #opensource

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Mission: Save the Server – The Disk is Almost Full!

#linux #beginners #cloudwhistler #opensource

3 min read

Jesse Williams for Jozu

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Migrating From DVC to KitOps

#programming #ai #tutorial #opensource

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Muhammad Zulqernain Zahid

May 7 '25

File & Directory Management – Command Your Files with Power! (30-Day RHCSA + Ansible Journey)

#cloudwhister #linux #devops #opensource

4 min read

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