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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 27 '25

Funding and Innovation: Blockchain, Cybersecurity, & Open Source – A Comprehensive Analysis

#blockchain #cybersecurity #opensource

8 min read

May 1 '25

Day 10/ 30 Days of Linux Mastery: Managing Software Packages (DNF)

#cloudwhistler #redhat #devops #opensource

3 min read

Zyntraxis

May 10 '25

Why I Built a New C++ Build System

#programming #systems #opensource #cpp

2 min read

May 31 '25

Exploring Open Source Software: A Journey Through Collaboration and Innovation

#opensource #technology

2 min read

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John Liter

May 31 '25

Garuda Mokka: The New Distro for Developers Who Want Power and Polish

#garudalinux #linuxfordevelopers #archlinux #opensource

3 min read

MousePotatoDoesStuff

May 31 '25

Vim: BackSpace - because VIM Adventures isn't worth the license cost

#vim #linux #gamedev #opensource

2 min read

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The Ecstatic Engineer

May 10 '25

Run Novu on a Local Machine

#novu #opensource #docker #notifications

6 min read

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Giorgio Boa for Playful Programming

May 30 '25

Contributing to Open Source is Easier Than You Think: My Journey with Firebase Genkit

#opensource #ai #firebase #programming

4 min read

perber

May 30 '25

LeafWiki Devlog #2: v0.2.0 - New Markdown Editor + Toolbar

#showdev #opensource #markdown #webdev

1 min read

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Juraj for Cyclops UI

May 22 '25

MCP Servers for Agentic Dev Platforms

#kubernetes #ai #devops #opensource

6 min read

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May 30 '25

How AI Helped Create a Video Surveillance System on Android

#ai #vibecoding #android #opensource

5 min read

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Alex Enson

Apr 26 '25

Basic, ACL & Special Permssions in Linux

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

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Jun 17 '25

How to create an MCP server with Symfony

#mcp #php #symfony #opensource

4 min read

Apr 27 '25

Catalyzing Innovation: A Deep Dive into Arbitrum's Project Grants Program

#arbitrum #layer2scaling #opensource

8 min read

May 1 '25

handleExportPdf() in Suna, an open source generalist AI agent.

#pdf #opensource #nextjs #downloadpdf

3 min read

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