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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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xavki

May 2 '25

Essential Guide to ConfigMaps and Secrets in Kubernetes

#kubernetes #devops #opensource

5 min read

Joe Curlee

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AI Runner: OpenSource desktop app for AI models

#ai #python #opensource

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Alex Enson

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Scripting Series – Part 4 of 8

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

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Vasudevan Tamilarasan

May 2 '25

GIT Contribution Tracker

#git #opensource #tracker #programming

2 min read

Laetitia Perraut

May 2 '25

Blockchain's Revolutionary Role in Open Source Software

#blockchain #opensource #decentralizedgovernance

8 min read

temaweb10

May 2 '25

How to start your journey in Open Source using the example of a small Go project

#opensource #go #cli #programming

2 min read

OLUWADAMILOLA ADETUGBOBO

May 1 '25

What Keeps Red Hat So Damn Solid? Spoiler: It’s Not Luck, It’s Ruthless Kernel Engineering!

#redhat #linux #opensource #cloudwhistler

5 min read

Saurabh Mahawar

May 1 '25

🚀 Setting Up Presto : A Step by Step Installation Guide to Run SQL Queries.

#opensource #presto #datascience #dataengineering

4 min read

Apr 30 '25

Communication is All You Need: What is A2A protocol ?

#ai #mcp #a2a #opensource

5 min read

Joel Milligan for NanoAPI

Apr 30 '25

🚀 Introducing NanoAPI v1.0.6 — Our First Stable Release!

#opensource #webdev #python #csharp

2 min read

viky

May 1 '25

I got suspended on Github

#github #programming #opensource

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Apr 30 '25

AWS open source newsletter, #209

#opensource #aws

22 min read

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Endpoint Security: A Low-Cost Data Diode

#security #cybersecurity #linux #opensource

3 min read

Sana Muhammad Sadiq

May 1 '25

Mastering User Management in Linux: useradd, usermod, passwd and userdel

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

Developer Harsh for Composio

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A Practical Guide to Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol

#ai #opensource #python #agentaichallenge

10 min read

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