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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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Apr 26

Day 8/ 30 Days of Linux Mastery: Access Control List

#cloudwhistler #redhat #devops #opensource

4 min read

Apr 22

[Agentica] Why your MCP server fails (how to make 100% successful MCP server)

#typescript #programming #opensource #mcp

12 min read

Pratham naik for Teamcamp

Apr 25

What’s Holding Your Dev Team Back? The Surprising Power of the Eisenhower Matrix for Smarter Task Management

#webdev #productivity #devops #opensource

8 min read

Apr 26

Fire19 vs ICANN (for devs)

#webdev #opensource

1 min read

Clelia (Astra) Bertelli

Apr 25

Ingest (almost) any non-PDF document in a vector database, effortlessly

#python #ai #opensource #vectordatabase

3 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Apr 25

Introducing: Project of the Week!

#discuss #opensource #programming #webdev

1 min read

Blurbify

Apr 25

Open Source AI: The Double-Edged Sword Devs Can’t Stop Talking About

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #deepseek

2 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

May 9

Project of the Week: TanStack Query

#discuss #programming #opensource #github

1 min read

Sana Muhammad Sadiq

Apr 26

Understanding Types of Users in Linux

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

Daniel Davis for TrustGraph

Apr 25

Part 1: The Memento Problem with AI Memory

#ai #opensource #rag #memory

2 min read

Mar 22

MERN Stack Deployment Issue🛠

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

1 min read

DevOps VN

Mar 22

The Open-Source On-Call Integration

#aws #devops #sre #opensource

5 min read

Saurabh Mahawar

Apr 25

Data Warehouses and Data Lakes: Understanding Modern Data Storage Paradigms 📦

#opensource #presto #datascience #dataengineering

2 min read

Olatunde salami

Apr 25

Day 4 of My 30-Day Linux Challenge: Exploring Linux Permissions

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

2 min read

Apr 25

Developer Tooling #001

#programming #tooling #productivity #opensource

1 min read

GitHubOpenSource

Apr 25

Taranis AI: Revolutionizing OSINT with the Power of AI

#osint #ai #nlp #opensource

3 min read

Aleksander Palamar

Apr 14

Como montei meu próprio servidor dedicado em casa (e parei de pagar por VPS)

#programming #devops #automation #opensource

3 min read

Saurabh Mahawar

Apr 25

Introduction to Presto: Open Source SQL Query Engine that's changing Big Data Analytics

#opensource #presto #dataengineering #datascience

2 min read

Apr 25

Decentralized Governance in Open Source: Bridging Innovation and Community

#decentralizedgovernance #opensource #blockchain

6 min read

Himanshu Shishodia

Mar 26

🚀Introducing PastesApp - A Simple and Secure Online Pastebin

#webdev #vite #opensource #redux

1 min read

Pratham naik for Teamcamp

Apr 23

Critical Path Method (CPM) Explained for Developers: Mastering Project Timelines

#webdev #productivity #opensource #learning

8 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 14

10 Daily Linux Questions and Answers Series (part 3)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

1 min read

Apr 25

OpenTelemetry at Scale: Controlling your Fleet with OpAMP

#opentelemetry #opensource #cloudnative #opamp

4 min read

Marc Anton Dahmen

Mar 26

Setting Up Neovim for Automad Theme Development

#neovim #php #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Anna Morelia for Stacklok

Apr 22

Which LLMs Are (and Aren't) Ready for Secure Code?

#ai #security #huggingface #opensource

3 min read

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