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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.

submission guidelines

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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Apr 24 '25

Women of Search and OpenSource Connections Mentorship Program

#womenintech #mentorship #opensource #inclusion

2 min read

Francesco Bianco

Apr 23 '25

Everyone Loves Open Source… Until It's Time to Contribute

#opensource #programming #community #contributorswanted

2 min read

Apr 24 '25

Day 7/ 30 Days of Linux Mastery : Basic Permissions and Use of Numeric Numbers.

#cloudwhistler #redhat #devops #opensource

5 min read

Apr 24 '25

Install Red Hat Developer Hub with AI Software Templates on OpenShift

#opensource #ai #redhatdeveloperhub #programming

7 min read

Sana Muhammad Sadiq

Apr 23 '25

Mastering vim: The Editor That Takes You from Basic to Pro in Linux

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

VASHANTHA KUMAR K.S

Apr 23 '25

Mastering Git Basics: A Beginner's Guide with Practical Commands

#webdev #tutorial #devops #opensource

2 min read

RisingWave Labs

Apr 23 '25

Every Database Will Support Iceberg — Here's Why

#discuss #opensource #news #database

5 min read

Apr 20 '25

Top 7+ Free Next.js Admin Dashboard Templates - 2026

#nextjs #webdev #javascript #opensource

5 min read

Maxim

Apr 23 '25

Bloggr – A flexible, open-source Next.js blog engine

#webdev #nextjs #productivity #opensource

1 min read

TheoForger

Mar 20 '25

Sprint 4 - I'm Finally Making Sense of Hurl

#opensource #beginners #rust #webdev

5 min read

Apr 23 '25

Why Keycloak is the Best Choice for Authentication in Modern Applications

#webdev #programming #microservices #opensource

3 min read

Abdulrasheed Abdulsalam

Mar 20 '25

What is Developer Relations and Why is it Important?

#devrel #opensource #softwareengineering

2 min read

Miki Makhlevich

Apr 22 '25

The Very First MCP Generator to Support Auth!

#mcp #python #fastapi #opensource

2 min read

Mar 24 '25

What’s missing in API testing tools today?

#api #opensource #devto #testing

1 min read

Apr 15 '25

From Frustration to Feature: The Open Source Magic

#watercooler #opensource

4 min read

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