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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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Yash Hegde

Aug 1 '22

Understanding Containers: Docker

#tutorial #devops #opensource #docker

8 min read

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Eduard Constantin

Aug 1 '22

Navigation menu animation

#javascript #webdev #react #opensource

1 min read

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Gabriel Taveira

Aug 1 '22

What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About React Native Modals

#reactnative #opensource #javascript #tutorial

6 min read

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NaveenKumar Namachivayam ⚡

Aug 1 '22

Getting Started with Fedora Silverblue

#linux #tutorial #opensource

9 min read

Unicorn Developer

Aug 1 '22

How warnings simplify your code

#cpp #programming #productivity #opensource

5 min read

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Emanuel Allely for Luos

Aug 1 '22

5 Top Open-source features and API for embedded systems and edge - Luos

#opensource #microservices #api #luos

1 min read

Cover image for HTTP Request Inspector - Capture and inspect HTTP requests.

Aug 1 '22

HTTP Request Inspector - Capture and inspect HTTP requests.

#opensource #javascript #github #tutorial

2 min read

Aug 1 '22

Write search queries with Python and OpenSearch®

#opensearch #opensource #python #elasticsearch

4 min read

SeaQL

Aug 1 '22

Engineering at SeaQL.org

#opensource #github #githunt #rust

4 min read

Rubem Vasconcelos

Jul 31 '22

Configure Aplicações React Usando Arquitetura Limpa com Apenas Um Comando

#webdev #braziliandevs #opensource #react

1 min read

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Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Jul 28 '22

Magento alternative: How it compares with Medusa, a JavaScript-based ecommerce platform

#programming #webdev #opensource #javascript

12 min read

Ivan Volchenskov

Jul 20 '22

How Impulse saves a week a year for me as a PM

#product #opensource #tailwindcss #react

3 min read

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Leonardo Montini for This is Learning

Jul 30 '22

[Video] How Open Source can change your life

#discuss #opensource #github #career

1 min read

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Neel

Jul 29 '22

Utility to mock REST endpoints in real-time

#showdev #opensource #javascript #java

6 min read

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Jul 25 '22

I quit my business to start an open-source dev tool

#opensource #indiehackers #tailwindcss #react

13 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jul 29 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #122

#opensource #aws

14 min read

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Rohith ND

Jul 30 '22

Black Line Follower with Arduino

#beginners #programming #arduino #opensource

2 min read

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Jul 29 '22

Securing Access to Kubernetes Environments with Zero Trust

#kubernetes #opensource #devops #programming

6 min read

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Emanuel Allely for Luos

Jul 29 '22

The Benefits of Using Microservices for Edge Devices - Luos

#opensource #microservices #embedded #luos

1 min read

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Hung Vu

Jul 26 '22

🍂Open-source Headless CMS Review: Strapi, Directus, and Payload

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

9 min read

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Jul 29 '22

How to Add Advanced Analytics to Medusa with Next.js and Matomo

#nextjs #ecommerce #opensource

4 min read

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Muhammad Shakir

Jul 28 '22

Introduction to Linux

#linux #ubuntu #content #opensource

3 min read

Kyle Jung

Jul 28 '22

React map libraries overview + react-leaflet complete installation debugging guide

#react #beginners #opensource #webdev

4 min read

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Emanuel Allely for Luos

Jul 28 '22

The default Luos engine's examples does not compile

#opensource #microservices #mcu #luos

1 min read

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Stefan Wuthrich

Jul 27 '22

Take the poll - Golang Open Source Projects

#opensource #go

1 min read

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