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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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Cover image for 10 Best Open-Source Monitoring Tools for DevOps in 2024

Eduardo Messuti for StatusPal

Mar 18 '24

10 Best Open-Source Monitoring Tools for DevOps in 2024

#opensource #devops #monitoring #development

8 min read

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Patrick

Feb 26 '24

Bash Better: How I Built a Tool to Organize Scripts Effectively

#bash #github #opensource #linux

2 min read

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Yaren Sarı for Açıklab

Mar 17 '24

Ubuntu 22.04’e MinIO Server Kurulumu

#minio #server #ubuntu #opensource

4 min read

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Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Feb 12 '24

FLaNK Stack Weekly 12 February 2024

#apachenifi #apachekafka #apacheflink #opensource

5 min read

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Jonas Ulrich for kickstartDS

Mar 5 '24

Unlocking the frontend – a call for standardizing component APIs pt.2

#designsystem #jsonschema #webdev #opensource

13 min read

Cover image for Robot Street Ultra Upgrades open source HTML5 game

Mar 17 '24

Robot Street Ultra Upgrades open source HTML5 game

#gamedev #opensource #javascript #programming

1 min read

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Bap

Mar 15 '24

🚀 2023's Top Open-Source Projects on Product Hunt 🏆

#discuss #programming #opensource #productivity

4 min read

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Feb 28 '24

Rise of Local LLMs ?

#productivity #ai #opensource #machinelearning

5 min read

Mar 16 '24

Building a Universally Portable Python App

#python #githubactions #opensource #security

5 min read

pmgzo

Mar 16 '24

My first open source contribution for MongoDB

#mongodb #opensource #contribution #bson

1 min read

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Piotr Kulpinski

Mar 19 '24

Growing a side-project to 100k Unique Visitors in one week

#opensource #learning #writing #startup

6 min read

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Sidharth Mohanty

Mar 16 '24

Sync your fork from the terminal

#javascript #github #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Katie Liu

Mar 16 '24

ChatCraft week 9: Free Model Provider!

#chatgpt #chatcraft #typescript #opensource

2 min read

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Lucas Wasilewski

Mar 15 '24

Bootloader 101

#assembly #opensource #softwaredevelopment #braziliandevs

5 min read

Feb 15 '24

Load assembly at runtime with .Net 6*

#webapi #dotnetcore #opensource #assembly

2 min read

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